Mplayer

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mplayer

mplayer is a very versatile movie player for Linux which can be completely used from command line. To enable few useful options of mplayer to be used automatically whenever mplayer is invoked, one can add following alias for mplayer in '.bashrc' file:

alias mplayer="mplayer -idx -zoom -softvol -softvol-max 400"