Mplayer

From XPUB & Lens-Based wiki
Website http://www.mplayerhq.hu/
License LGPL, GPL
OS GNU/Linux, OS X, Windows
Media Video player
Format MP4, OGG, MP3, MP4
Interface Command-line interface, GUI,
Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPlayer
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Command-line media player

Potentionally interesting is the "EDL" feature of mplayer -- it lets you specify time ranges the player should skip (not show -- it's actually designed as a tool to censor)

http://www.oreillynet.com/sysadmin/blog/2005/06/make_your_own_phantom_edit_wit.html


Mplayer with extra space for subtitles (from Linda)

SUB=/home/murtaugh/Documents/opensourcevideo/rearwindow_es.srt
SRC=/home/murtaugh/Videos/personalchef.ogg
mplayer -fs -vf expand=:-500::0:1 -sub $SUB -subfont-text-scale 2 -subpos 80 $SRC