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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

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