mplayer tricks

[Peter King]

The things you learn...

I just discovered that mplayer will allow one to
run its output in the console framebuffer, and that
if you start it and flip over to another virtual
console you get a movie playing (centered) above and
can keep working in the console beneath it. Way cool.

$ mplayer -vo fbdev2 -ao alsa -double -fs some.mpg

Then use alt-[rightarrow] to slide over. How about 
that.

All this, while trying to find out how to extract a
timed portion of an mpg file.
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