How to stop a video playing using mplayer command in linux

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Hi,

I am playing a video using mplayer command in a linux device. For playing I have used below

mplayer -softvol -softvol-max 100 /root/Advideo.avi -vf scale=320:200

Now my requirement is to stop the video(which is playing) using the mplayer command.

Can you please tell the solution for this.

What I have tried:

For playing I am using below command

mplayer -softvol -softvol-max 100 /root/Advideo.avi -vf scale=320:200

Posted 22-May-19 0:43am

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Updated 22-May-19 1:00am

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phil.o · Accepted Answer · 2019-05-22T01:00:00

Solution 1

You can kill its process:

Shell

killall -9 mplayer

or

Shell

pkill mplayer

Posted 22-May-19 1:00am

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Member 13740197 22-May-19 8:29am

Thanks for your answer

phil.o 22-May-19 8:37am

You ae welcome.

Member 13740197 22-May-19 8:40am

Hi, I have another problem after playing and stopping video. After 10 times while I am playing video I got below error, Can you please tell why this is coming?

[AO OSS] Can't set audio device /dev/dsp to s16le output, trying s16le...
[AO OSS] Can't set audio device /dev/dsp to s16le output, trying s16le...
[AO OSS] Can't set audio device /dev/dsp to s16le output, trying s16le...
[AO OSS] Can't set audio device /dev/dsp to s16le output, trying s16le...
[AO OSS] Can't set audio device /dev/dsp to s16le output, trying s16le...
[AO OSS] Can't set audio device /dev/dsp to s16le output, trying s16le...
[AO OSS] Can't set audio device /dev/dsp to s16le output, trying s16le...
[AO OSS] Can't set audio device /dev/dsp to s16le output, trying s16le...

MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: ao2_init
Can't restore text mode: Invalid argument

phil.o 22-May-19 9:09am

I'm afraid I have not a clue. You may have to go to mplayer community for that, because this is not really related to software development.