Media is sound, video, pictures, and anything else you see or hear in an electronic format. This tag is for questions pertaining to media.
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How do I make music and videos from an external hard drive show up on the lens filters?
Using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with Unity. I keep all my music and movies on an external hdd and I was wondering if there was a way to make the media on the hdd show up on the dash and its lens filters.
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Stream to Apple TV?
I would like to be able to do AV streaming and (or) mirroring with my apple TV from Ubuntu. I'm running 13.04. Is this possible, or will I have to do the outrageously inconvenient task of using an $20 ...
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How do I make dvd::rip not freeze halfway through a DVD?
When trying to rip a DVD, it freezes after 30 minutes.
When I try to transcode a small part of the dvd,
I get this error.
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Setting up Ushare (Xbox 360 File Sharing)
I recently tried installing Ushare so I could share media between my laptop and Xbox. Could someone direct me as to how to change the settings so it can be recognized by my xbox.
Ushare.conf file:
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Software center not downloading anything?
It is simply stuck as "Enabling component of distribution" and "updating cache" in the waiting mode? The download never starts. Kind of let down as I was expecting an easier interface.
I am ...
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what plugin is required to hear audio on this page
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit Chrome Version 24.0.1312.52
on following page
http://swargarohan.org/ramcharitmanas/bal-kand/
there are audios
Ramcharitmanas - Bal Kand : Mukesh
Ramcharitmanas - ...
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installing wine without internet
How to install wine application on ubuntu12.10 without internet. I have already downloaded wine 1.4, but I don't know how to install it.Please be sure any answer for me.
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Mounted Devices History
Does Ubuntu keep the history of the devices that were mounted (i.e. USB devices, external drives etc...). If this is the case where can I find it?
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Video streams requiring Windows Media Player plugin stopped working
Video streams requiring Windows Media Player plugin stopped working.
(probably after VLC or/and GNOME Media Player installs - uninstalling did not help)
I have gstreamer installed.
I have Totem, VLC ...
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Sound Not Working Until Manually Enabled/Disabled
Alright, so I'm running Xubuntu 12.10, and whenever I close the lid to my laptop, or turn it off, I have to go into my sound settings-> Configuration-> then manually switch it from Analog Stereo, to a ...
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Maximum sound level differs between Ubuntu and Windows
Recently I've been watching lots of .mkv or .avi files in my Ubuntu and I realize that the maximum sound level is lower than what is in the Windows with KM Player. This difference is very noticeable ...
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data transfer to portable media freezes
Myself and my friends using Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit LTS are experiencing a common problem.
The data transfer to the portable media such as pendrive freezes in the middle or at the very end in ubuntu.If we ...
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Media keys disable external monitor
Recently on my Dell XPS M1330 with Ubuntu 12.10, after some updates (I could not figure out which one caused the problem), if I press the media keys on the keyboard or the remote control, they turn ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 Can't Play DVDs with Libdvdcss installed
I've installed VLC, libdvdread4, libdvdcss, Medibuntu and Ubuntu restricted extras AND ran this line of code...
sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh
...on my Ubuntu 12.04 but whenever I ...
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Media Player folder path to Ubuntu server issue
I just installed my first Ubuntu server as my main media hub. I have Samba installed. My problem is that I am not able to browse my folders in the server from my media player (popcorn-a110 find the ...
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User interface navigable via game controller
I am repurposing an old desktop as a media center PC using Ubuntu(for the time being)but I am also interested in adding some capabilities more typically attributed to a game console to the machine. ...
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Media videos not loading after installing 12.04 and running 32bit
I've successfully downloaded and upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04 from 10.04.
Everything else is working smoothly, except for my media files such as YouTube. However there are no blue screens, it simply ...
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I downloaded the adobe flash media encoder thru wine, but not working
How can I use the adobe flash encoder? the problem may exist...? please help, what is the problem then.
Thank you.
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latest ubuntu OS have adobe flash media encoder?
May I know how can I get adobe flash media encoder for ubuntu?
Thanks
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How to play some photos/audio/video from a UPNP Server
although Upnp is everywhere from XP onwards, it seems Ubuntu does not have any support out of the box, there are a lot of plugins for mediaplayers but not really well packaged, there is also XBMC, but ...
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Installing Ubuntu onto Cowon v5
I recently got a Cowon v5 media player. I discovered that its OS is Windows CE (insert sounds of being sick). Yeah, yeah... silly me for not reading reviews carefully. It is big enough to use a ...
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Using Gpac to get MPD Files
My goal is to convert some mpeg4 files in my hard disk into mpd files that will allow me to use it in mpeg dash streaming. I read about gpac's MP4Box capability to create mpd files and I followed the ...
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Sync ubuntu - youtube or media
Does anyone know of a way to:
sync youtube videos across ubuntu machines.
sync media (movies/music) across ubuntu machines.
Ideally, I would like my laptop to stay in sync with my lounge media pc ...
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Total time wrong in gecko-mediaplayer
I am using gecko-mediaplayer to listen to mp3s in FireFox. However, the predicted time is completely wrong with certain files. This also makes it very hard to jump to a particular part of the song ...
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Can't open asf file
I have some links for asf files. I double clicked it, the default Movie Player pops up with error msg
An error occured Location not found.
I opened and pasted the link to VLC player, I see:
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Import ITunes media folder into banshee
After importing files from ITunes media folder, all music albums imported without album art.
After some research i found the problem is image's format that supported by apple and still not supported ...
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Is there a work around to get PlayOn media server to work on ubuntu?
Recently, a Netflix on Ubuntu solution was posted at Is there a way to stream Netflix?
Is there a similar solution for PlayOn media server?
PlayOn (not playonlinux) is a media server that lets you ...
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itunes library on the network, how do I access its playlists, sync ipod etc?
i have ubuntu 11.?, default installation with a blank password on the only account. It's on the partition of my laptop that is working - the windows 7 partition has disk faults and is dead. however, ...
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All media looks fast forwarded
when I'm playing, for example, a song in Rhytmbox and then open a video in youtube, this looks fast-forwarded, it's the same problem from here, just that, in my sound configuration there's only one ...
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Wrong default mount point for hotplug devices
I don't know why ubuntu is mounting new devices ( usb flashs / cd/dvds / external hdds ) to /media/movies/HERE instead of /media/HERE
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Make audio players (banshee/clementine) read latin(greek) characters
Is there any way to make banshee or clementine read my greek named folders?
I am getting this at a greek folder "Aêõêëïöüñçôá ÌáÀïõ".
Thank you!
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How to save a tif file directly from a virual machine?
I have a very strange issue and I could use some help with resolving it.
I use virtualbox to host a Windows installation on top of Ubuntu 12.04. In the Windows VM I have numerous shared folders ...
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DVD's play fine, audio cd's not recognized in uberstudent
I have tried multiple cd's to no avail. Dvd's work perfect on the same drive. I am new to linux commands and such however I have followed several mounting and test outputs for the drive. Media is not ...
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Keystroke detected, webpage element notified
I have a rather unusual question (or so it seems from the documentation out there).
I listen to grooveshark quite a bit, which as some may know is a somewhat popular online music streaming site, and ...
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Why Is Rhythmbox Changing My Files?
This is driving me insane. Rhythmbox is cataloging some songs in its DB with the wrong name or artist or album title. It seems to be a random thing, and uses a name from some other song, artist, or ...
