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Is it possible to disable the video output in a video player but keep the audio enabled?

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I sometimes hide the video player and only listen to music. But it still uses the processor, and my computer gets hot.

Is there a way to temporarily disable video output and only play audio, without extraction or conversion?

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answered 1 Year ago fulild · Accepted Answer

I don't think you can do this with the default video player on Ubuntu (totem) but with VLC media player you can easily disable the video stream of a media file and only let the audio play (or vice versa):

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With this method settings won't be preserved across different files/loops of the same file. A more permanent solution is disabling video playback from the preferences menu:

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