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A few mplayer tips i have found useful

* amplify volume in low volume media
mplayer video-name -softvol -softvol-max 500
- this will start with a low volume, u need to increase to volume using the volume keys
- instead of 10000 use the minimum value(10-10000) that works for you

* save a stream (eg rtsp://) to a file
mencoder stream-url -o output.avi -oac copy -ovc copy
- the stream url is written inside the file provided, eg inside .ram

* clip a video
mencoder input-video -o output-video -ss start-time -endpos end-time
- start-time/end-time can be seconds or hr:min:sec

* merge videos
cat videos list seperated by spaces | mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy -o output.avi -

* use 2 subtitle files with single movie file or 1 subtitle file with 2 movie files
bind a key for sifting the subtitles by cd1 duration ( in seconds ), and use this key once

links
* Encoding with MEncoder
* Video Playback and Encoding with MPlayer and MEncoder
* MPlayer docs

Amal’s surprise visit. Weekend at Tintins’s. Cooking Party. Good bc. great weekend just when i needed one. but missed the TiE Interactive session with Mr. Ajit Deora coz of the hangover(no boozeing btw).

stopped posting todays links in blog. will just post them on del.icio.us. can be viewed at del.ioio.us/smranta or bookmarks.smr.co.in. if there is some nice script that will show my recent bookmarks on sidebar, i might put it up.

I, on behalf on IIIT bloggers community welcome Dr Kamal on board. Its nice to see him blogging. and he is frequent so far. Okey, Thankyou

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- BarCamp Hyderabad rocked.
- I finally finished all requirements of BTech. (FYI i was two hssm short after 8 sems. did one each in last two.) Party!!
- google loves me. mine is the lucky link for ‘advanced vim tutorial’ and 11th for ‘vim tutorial’. (personalization might change it)
- reservation. nothing makes me more sick. i want to write on it. sometime later. just one reason - incompetent people starts making the decisions. their benefits doesnt bother me.
- the new pic is from 10+2 days. cropped from this one.