re: living in the consolex

re: living in the consolex

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Well, Mark peveto here,
I tried mplayer, and yeah, it works, but good heavens how do I get it not to read that screen full of fluff while it plays?


Mark Peveto
Registered Linux user number 600552
Everything happens after coffee!

Re: living in the consolex

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With the console screen reader I use, I find adding

2> /dev/null

to the end of the command line does well to prevent junk text being
read over the audio being played by the program.

2> (the numeral 2 followed by the greater than/right angle bracket)
tells the terminal to redirect error messages to a file. /dev/null is
the null device and is a good candidate for redirecting output you
don't want.

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Former Secretary, Student Government Association, College of the Albemarle.

Re: living in the consolex

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I do the same thing except I usually redirect it to an actual file so I can review it in an editor if I want to.
I use aliases a lot, e.g., alias apt1='sudo apt-get -y update' 2> 1, to update linux.
I use integers as filenames for scratch files.
vlc is my favorite music player now, but mplayer is fine.


On May 25, 2017, at 6:25 PM, Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@redhat.com> wrote:

With the console screen reader I use, I find adding

2> /dev/null

to the end of the command line does well to prevent junk text being
read over the audio being played by the program.

2> (the numeral 2 followed by the greater than/right angle bracket)
tells the terminal to redirect error messages to a file. /dev/null is
the null device and is a good candidate for redirecting output you
don't want.

-- 
Sincerely,

Jeffery Wright
President Emeritus, Nu Nu Chapter, Phi Theta Kappa.
Former Secretary, Student Government Association, College of the Albemarle.

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Re: living in the consolex

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Tim here again.  You can tell mplayer to shut up with any messages
with either

  mplayer --msglevel=all=-1 myfile.mp3

or set the environment variable MPLAYER_VERBOSE to a ridiculously
high (low?) negative number (which can be done in your .bashrc so
it's always set):

  $ export MPLAYER_VERBOSE=-99
  $ mplayer myfile.mp3

Hope this helps.

-tim

On May 25, 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> Well, Mark peveto here,
> I tried mplayer, and yeah, it works, but good heavens how do I get
> it not to read that screen full of fluff while it plays?
> 
> 
> Mark Peveto
> Registered Linux user number 600552
> Everything happens after coffee!
> 
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re: living in the consolex

[Linux for blind general discussion]

Hi,
It has a -really-quiet option which stop most output.
Also just shut up your screen reader while playing music will work.
If it is speakup, press the right bottom key on your keyboard, the enter 
key on the numpad for shut up.
You can also set some config parameter in the mplayer config file in /etc 
to keep it quiet.
for printing, just run
print any_file_name
If you have a properly defined mailcap file, things will just work.
You can usually also just run
lp any_file_name
once your printer is configured properly.
Web browsing is the one area where one has problems from the console.
The lynx  browser, that is l y n x, works well for many things, but does 
not support modern web pages.
That said, I use it unless I really cannot do otherwise.
The three commands, see, edit and print uses your mailcap file and is 
quite powerful.
e.g. if I do
see some_file.doc
it will read a microsoft word document to me.
If I do
see song.wav
It will start playing the music.
FWIW, Willem


On Thu, 25 May 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:

> Well, Mark peveto here,
> I tried mplayer, and yeah, it works, but good heavens how do I get it not to read that screen full of fluff while it plays?
>
>
> Mark Peveto
> Registered Linux user number 600552
> Everything happens after coffee!
>
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Re: living in the consolex

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mplayer -quiet <filename> seems to work also.

Al

On 5/25/2017 9:56 PM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> Tim here again.  You can tell mplayer to shut up with any messages
> with either
>
>   mplayer --msglevel=all=-1 myfile.mp3
>
> or set the environment variable MPLAYER_VERBOSE to a ridiculously
> high (low?) negative number (which can be done in your .bashrc so
> it's always set):
>
>   $ export MPLAYER_VERBOSE=-99
>   $ mplayer myfile.mp3
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> -tim
>
> On May 25, 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>> Well, Mark peveto here,
>> I tried mplayer, and yeah, it works, but good heavens how do I get
>> it not to read that screen full of fluff while it plays?
>>
>>
>> Mark Peveto
>> Registered Linux user number 600552
>> Everything happens after coffee!
>>
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Re: living in the consolex

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It is possible to configure mplayer once and once done the command line parameters are no longer necessary.

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On May 26, 2017 at 8:55 AM, Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@redhat.com> wrote:

mplayer -quiet <filename> seems to work also. 

Al 

On 5/25/2017 9:56 PM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: 
Tim here again. You can tell mplayer to shut up with any messages 
with either 

mplayer --msglevel=all=-1 myfile.mp3 

or set the environment variable MPLAYER_VERBOSE to a ridiculously 
high (low?) negative number (which can be done in your .bashrc so 
it's always set): 

$ export MPLAYER_VERBOSE=-99 
$ mplayer myfile.mp3 

Hope this helps. 

-tim 

On May 25, 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: 
Well, Mark peveto here, 
I tried mplayer, and yeah, it works, but good heavens how do I get 
it not to read that screen full of fluff while it plays? 


Mark Peveto 
Registered Linux user number 600552 
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Re: living in the consolex

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Howdy,

You can use alias or scrips to keep things short.
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/an-introduction-to-useful-bash-aliases-and-functions


Cheers Chrys 

Am Freitag 26. Mai 2017 schrieb Linux for blind general discussion:
> It is possible to configure mplayer once and once done the command line parameters are no longer necessary.
> 
> Sent from BlueMail for iPhone
> On May 26, 2017 at 8:55 AM, Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> mplayer -quiet <filename> seems to work also. 
> 
> Al 
> 
> On 5/25/2017 9:56 PM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: 
> Tim here again. You can tell mplayer to shut up with any messages 
> with either 
> 
> mplayer --msglevel=all=-1 myfile.mp3 
> 
> or set the environment variable MPLAYER_VERBOSE to a ridiculously 
> high (low?) negative number (which can be done in your .bashrc so 
> it's always set): 
> 
> $ export MPLAYER_VERBOSE=-99 
> $ mplayer myfile.mp3 
> 
> Hope this helps. 
> 
> -tim 
> 
> On May 25, 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: 
> Well, Mark peveto here, 
> I tried mplayer, and yeah, it works, but good heavens how do I get 
> it not to read that screen full of fluff while it plays? 
> 
> 
> Mark Peveto 
> Registered Linux user number 600552 
> Everything happens after coffee! 
> 
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Re: living in the consolex

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Anyone know if the mplayer -quiet option has a short version and if
it's still present in mplayer2 or mpv?

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Jeffery Wright
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Former Secretary, Student Government Association, College of the Albemarle.

Re: living in the consolex

[Linux for blind general discussion]

Hi,

I am not sure if my e-mail about XMPP command line clients got through, 
but I have a related question which is relevant to this thread:

Assuming nobody knows about a command line XMPP client that can also 
handle voice chat, can someone recommend a command line client which is 
in active development, or at least being maintained, and which would 
deserve some support to get such an improvement?

In other words, a client that already handles XMPP text, but could be 
improved to handle XMPP audio.

Thanks,

Fernando

Re: living in the consolex

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Willem:

The see command is a new one to me, and it's not on my system. What
package provides that? It sounds very useful.

tia

Janina

Linux for blind general discussion writes:
> Hi,
> It has a -really-quiet option which stop most output.
> Also just shut up your screen reader while playing music will work.
> If it is speakup, press the right bottom key on your keyboard, the enter key
> on the numpad for shut up.
> You can also set some config parameter in the mplayer config file in /etc to
> keep it quiet.
> for printing, just run
> print any_file_name
> If you have a properly defined mailcap file, things will just work.
> You can usually also just run
> lp any_file_name
> once your printer is configured properly.
> Web browsing is the one area where one has problems from the console.
> The lynx  browser, that is l y n x, works well for many things, but does not
> support modern web pages.
> That said, I use it unless I really cannot do otherwise.
> The three commands, see, edit and print uses your mailcap file and is quite
> powerful.
> e.g. if I do
> see some_file.doc
> it will read a microsoft word document to me.
> If I do
> see song.wav
> It will start playing the music.
> FWIW, Willem
> 
> 
> On Thu, 25 May 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> 
> > Well, Mark peveto here,
> > I tried mplayer, and yeah, it works, but good heavens how do I get it not to read that screen full of fluff while it plays?
> > 
> > 
> > Mark Peveto
> > Registered Linux user number 600552
> > Everything happens after coffee!
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
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> > Blinux-list@redhat.com
> > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
> > 
> > 
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Re: living in the consolex

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Hi Janina,
On ubuntu it is in a package called mime-support.
The description is as follows:
Description: MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap', and support programs
  As these files can be used by all MIME compliant programs, they have been 
moved into their own package that others can depend
  upon.

  Other packages add themselves as viewers/editors/composers/etc by using 
the provided "update-mime" program.

  In addition, the commands "see", "edit", "compose", and "print" will 
display, alter, create, and print (respectively) any file
  using a program determined from the entries in the mime.types and mailcap 
files.

  HTH, Willem


On Mon, 29 May 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:

> Willem:
>
> The see command is a new one to me, and it's not on my system. What
> package provides that? It sounds very useful.
>
> tia
>
> Janina
>
> Linux for blind general discussion writes:
>> Hi,
>> It has a -really-quiet option which stop most output.
>> Also just shut up your screen reader while playing music will work.
>> If it is speakup, press the right bottom key on your keyboard, the enter key
>> on the numpad for shut up.
>> You can also set some config parameter in the mplayer config file in /etc to
>> keep it quiet.
>> for printing, just run
>> print any_file_name
>> If you have a properly defined mailcap file, things will just work.
>> You can usually also just run
>> lp any_file_name
>> once your printer is configured properly.
>> Web browsing is the one area where one has problems from the console.
>> The lynx  browser, that is l y n x, works well for many things, but does not
>> support modern web pages.
>> That said, I use it unless I really cannot do otherwise.
>> The three commands, see, edit and print uses your mailcap file and is quite
>> powerful.
>> e.g. if I do
>> see some_file.doc
>> it will read a microsoft word document to me.
>> If I do
>> see song.wav
>> It will start playing the music.
>> FWIW, Willem
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 25 May 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>>
>>> Well, Mark peveto here,
>>> I tried mplayer, and yeah, it works, but good heavens how do I get it not to read that screen full of fluff while it plays?
>>>
>>>
>>> Mark Peveto
>>> Registered Linux user number 600552
>>> Everything happens after coffee!
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Blinux-list mailing list
>>> Blinux-list@redhat.com
>>> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
>>>
>>>
>>
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>
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> Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup:	http://a11y.org
>
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