Tech Tip: Disabling Audio or Video in mplayer and VLC
In order to completely disable video in VLC, from the command line, use
the --novideo command line flag - this way only the Audio will
be heard. To do the same in mplayer, use the -novideo flag.
You can do the same for audio using --noaudio and
-noaudio respectively.
A different propsoed solution is using -vo none in mplayer
or --vo none in VLC, but this causes the video to still be decoded
(just not presented) - at least in VLC.
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