disable video track, just play audio

[Catalin Soare]

On Jan 22, 2014 6:34 PM, "Catalin Soare" <lolinux.soare at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Jan 22, 2014 10:37 AM, "thufir" <hawat.thufir at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I like totem, or, failing that, GNOME mplayer.  But it seems only vlc
has
> > a menu option to disable the video track?
> >
> >
http://askubuntu.com/questions/339990/is-it-possible-to-disable-the-video-
> > output-in-a-video-player-but-keep-the-audio
> >
> > There are plenty of videos where I'm only interested in the audio, just
> > wondering if anyone has more options.
> >
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > Thufir
> >
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> Hello!
>
> You might want to take a look at mplayer. It could do that in batch mode,
with:
> mplayer -vo=null (if I'm not mistaking?)
> Anyway for these kinds of options you will get away with it if you only
read the help.
> There are tons of usage examples on the web. Awesome player and you might
also be interested in mencoder, the mplayer's encoder for more advanced
media conversion capabilities.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
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I'll need to correct myself:

mplayer -vo null something.mpg

According to
http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/4919/using-mplayer-to-play-the-audio-only-but-suppress-the-video
.

Cheers!
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