Questions tagged [ffplay]

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How to play youtube song in terminal with ffplay and youtube-dl

Is there any you to stream any music the terminal with youtube-dl and ffplay I know that ffplay can play audio with shell $ audio stram | ffplay -i -
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how to write subcommand to FFPLAY during playback using subprocess module?

I'm trying to pause a video playback started with FFPLAY through a python subprocess. You can do this manually by pressing the "p" key on the keyboard while the video is playing. I'd like to emulate this behavior through a python call. I'm now…
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No such filter '"split': ffplay with ffmpeg in Python

I am trying to visualize the YUV histograms of video overlayed with the video using ffmpeg on Python. The code that I use is the…
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Is there a way to run a subprocess that opens a window in the background in Python?

I am attempting to call ffplay in Python using subprocess. When ffplay is called, it opens a window with the video and outputs information to the console until the window is closed. I'd like to scrap the output and return to the Python script while…
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Is it possible to embed another application's GUI within an NWJS app?

ffplay does a very fine job of displaying 4K content streamed using RTSP, better than any I've seen so far. ffplay opens its own window for viewing. I would like to develop an app using NWJS for viewing CCTV content over a network. Is there a way…
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FFMPEG: invalid data found when processing input, but same input works in FFPLAY

I have a TCP stream with raw 8-bit image data (1280x720) that I receive and display with FFPLAY without problems, but it´s not possible to process the same input with FFMPEG. This works: ffplay -i tcp://127.0.0.1:8485\?listen -f rawvideo…
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How to play HDR10 videos using ffplay and ffmpeg?

I'm trying to play on Windows a HDR10 video. My display support 10 bits HDR content. The command that I'm using to play the HDR10 video is the following. ffplay -sws_flags print_info -i video.mp4 But the output looks washed out. the log are the…
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Change ffplay spectrogram colours

How can I make the live spectrogram that ffplay renders while playing audio use colours?
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yt-dlp get audio only link -> ffmpeg piped audio -> ffplay

Ok, i have a perl script that i am trying to figure out why it is throwing an io error. First i use yt-dlg to get the link of only the audio - this works as expected and i can navigate to the link in a browser just fine. then i open a ffmpeg pipe in…
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How to properly pipe adb screenrecord (h264 stream) to ffplay in a WinForms app?

How to pipe ADB's exec out to ffplay? I have been struggling to get this "Live view" C# WinForms app working properly this last week. The goal is to have the android screen in the native app window where I then have other controls implemented as an…
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The fdsink element in GStreamer cannot be used to output the correct byte-stream to the pipeline

Because I need to output the RTSP stream pulled from the GStreamer command line to my Python program, I use the fdsink element to output the byte-stream from the pipeline. The video can be displayed correctly by using the xvimagesink element. The…
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Using FFMPEG command to read the frame and show using the inshow function in opencv

I am trying to get the frame using the ffmpeg command and show using the opencv function cv2.imshow(). This snippet gives the black and white image on the RTSP Stream link . Output is given below link [ output of FFmpeg link]. I have tried the…
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How can i display video duration with ffplay?

I'm trying to display the video duration using ffplay. I have figured out how to display current frame timestamp but can't get the duration.The only thing that i have done is this: ffplay -vf "drawtext=text='%{pts:hms}'" -i video.mp4 which is not…
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When using ffplay, how to eliminate milliseconds from timestamp display in the video-filter

So when specifying a video-filter to display current video-time in 'hms' layout, the filter appends a millisecond value after the seconds-field. I want to eliminate the milliseconds portion. So far, my invoked cmd looks like: ffplay myfile.mp4 -vf…
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How to draw - dynamic - "safe areas" in ffplay

we need to preview videos with overlayed so-called "safe areas" according to this EBU document: SAFE AREAS FOR 16:9 TELEVISION PRODUCTION. Here's the scheme for 1080p resolution: 1080p Safe Areas Those consist of three different "zones", each with…
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