Questions related with Video Players and its working in Ubuntu
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madVR Render in Ubuntu
I used to play videos in potplayer on windows using (madVR rendering
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It's an amazing video renderer, is it possible to use it under ubuntu 13.04 ? if not, is there any similar video renderer for ...
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Role of dependencies while installing software??
What is the role of dependencies while installing any software?I was installing vlc player and it were closed by giving me error something like check dependency .
What is to solution of this and how ...
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Why are Youtube videos not playing properly on chrome?
I've had Ubuntu for quite some time now and youtube and everything has worked spectacular! But all of a sudden recently youtube videos have stopped working right. The sound works perfectly, but the ...
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No sound on videos on version 12.04
After 4 days of working I finally have my system running on version 12.04!
My ultimate goal is to be able to edit short videos for posting on You Tube for a local drag strip I work part time at. I ...
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Has anyone installed Real Player?
I have recently defected to Linux from Windows and no regret, almost. I sort of miss Real Player. I have found that it IS possible to have it installed which I did through Helix Player website, but ...
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NCAA March Madness Live doesn't work
NCAA March Madness Live is a Flash-based video player for the NCAA college basketball tournament that started today. In past years, it worked fine in Linux, but now I get an error that says "Technical ...
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kubuntu - vlc or smplayer video quality settings for HD movies (mkv etc…)
I have ubuntu 12.04.02 with kde 4.10 with 3d effects.
I have a recent very fast PC. I have a ATI msi R6870 video card fglrx proprietary drivers 13.1.
I have used video tearing option to reduce video ...
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Is it possible to set Totem as frontend for Xine?
The Wikipedia article for Totem player says that "until version 2.27.1, it could alternatively be configured to use the Xine libraries instead of GStreamer".
I like Xine very much, but not its ...
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Hide the top menu bar. tutorial's not working for me
I just got a 10" Dell inspiron mini for spare computer and installed ubuntu 12.10 on it. It works somewhat fine but of course screen real estate is an issue. I like watching video on top while I'm ...
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Need to change default movie players in Kubuntu 12.04
I've recently installed Kubuntu 12.04 on my computer, and the Dragon movie player doesn't work very well for me. So I installed the Totem movie player (which I've used in both Ubuntu and Lubuntu with ...
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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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How to correctly enable/test VA-API on Intel Sandy Bridge ?
I would like to know:
Which package I have to install
How to test that is working fine
Which player support it
I know there are many question similar but no one is compleate and clear to me
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Two problems with Ubuntu 12.04.1 [closed]
First issue that I'm having is the speakers constantly make a popping sound if I'm playing some form of media but I don't have my speakers hooked up to my laptop. I thought it might have been the ...
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screen tearing on videos (not flash videos)
I mean video files on my hard drive. I get noticeable screen tearing on VLC, Totem, gnome mplayer and Mplayer. I have tried fglrx drivers and now the experimental AMD drivers.
I have a Radeon HD6950 ...
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How can I make Banshee using the VDPAU video driver?
I know people ask about HD video offloading using VDPAU alot, but my question is a bit different.
I want to tell the Banshee media player to use the VDPAU driver by default. (vdpau is the Nvidia ...
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Gstreamer error when I try to play videos, audio works fine
I can't play videos with parole. Theres is a gstreamer error (a videosink configuration). I've also installed restricted extras and VLC and i still can't play movies. I've no problem playing audio ...
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How to install mpeg-4 aac and h.264 decoder on Ubuntu 10.10? [closed]
I'm trying to play a video which requires the above mentioned plugins. I've looked at a few answers on this topic here but it hasn't resolved the issue for me.
What I've tried until now :
1) sudo ...
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ubuntu 12.10 mp3 mpeg support
Why does ubuntu 12.10 not support playing mp3 audio files and mpeg video right out of the ISO?
These formats have been around for decades now and I find it strange that after I installed 12.10 I could ...
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Loading ac3 files in VLC player [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to view video file with external ac3 audio track?
I have mkv and english.ac3 files. That mkv plays with the default audio stream which is not english. How do I load ...
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How to make Kmplayer work with wine
Is there by any chance a way I can make the video player Kmplayer work on Kubuntu 12.04.1 LTS with wine?
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Unable to play movies at all
I just installed Ubuntu, and thus I'm unable to play movies. For example, if I run *.mkv file, I get the error of " Gstreamer backend error - Can't play the text file without video or visualization". ...
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How do I loop a movie infinitely on another monitor?
I want to loop a video infinitely in another monitor. How do I do this?
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why do I have to restart Ubuntu 12.10 in a couple of days time max?
When I installed Ubuntu 12.10, one of the benefits I was looking for was to go without restarting the OS for months. But every 2 days or so the system gets heavy and it's not the same switching ...
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VLC and other Multi Media Problems
I've tried numerous free multimedia applications on Ubuntu and I get the same result when I watch one of my movies off my other hard drive. It always ends up full screening with a stuck image in the ...
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is there a small music video player, fixed on desktop to play music videos while doing other things?
Is there a way to play music videos in a small window on top of everything. Basically I have some mpeg music videos and would like to play them while I am browsing, but I'd like to pin it to a part of ...
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Unable to run any Video File Format
Whenever i try to run any Video File in my ubuntu system Movie Player it asks for plugins installations as shown below
But after i click on install button it gives an error that the package ...
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Displaying two subtitle tracks simultaneously
Is there a way to display multiple subtitles at the same time? It would help a lot while learning a new language. I have some *.mkv movie with two embedded subtitles, how would I turn them both on, so ...
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Movie Player shows blank screen, plays sound
Until this morning, I could play DVDs or copy the VOB files from DVD to /tmp dir and play the .vob off the /tmp in both VLC and Movie Player.
Then I tried to upgrade Ubuntu from 12.04 to 12.10 and ...
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Side by side subtitles
Is there a video player in Linux that can display subtitles from a srt file correctly for side by side 3D video?
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Video playing too fast and voice is distorted on 12.04 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I fix Flash issues?
I upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04 few months back. I am noticing that at random times, while watching youtube videos, they suddenly start running ...
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How can I play .camrec files made in Camtasia?
i have some educational videos which made by Camtasia Program
do this program save its videos in *.camrec extension
so the problem is that there is no version for Linux
so how can i play these ...
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AMD dual graphics laptop movie playback
Recently I bought an AMD APU based laptop (A6 3420M + Radeon 7670M), installed the proprietary driver (AMD Catalyst) and everything works fine except for movie playback in the fullscreen -- it seems ...
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Problem with updating plug-in Ubuntu 12.04 Movie Player [closed]
I am trying to update plug-ins required for movie player and audio player. It is showing which plug-ins need to upload, but it is not downloading it. My country is India. Saying that your country is ...
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I have lost a 30GB Folder
i was using a video player running a movie. the player (movie player that is coming by default on ubuntu) was freezing and the file and others files in the same folder (30 GB ) was missing. still ...
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Why won't videos play after opening multiple files [closed]
Doesn't matter the player.. tried SMPlayer and VLC. After opening numerous video files, the players only play audio. Video will play in Chromium and Firefox, just not in video players. I'd watch a ...
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Can't play any Flash videos
Recently installed Lubuntu 12.04 with alternate installer on Compaq Evo N400c (850Mhz PIII, 20GB ATA HDD, 512MB RAM).
After installation of restricted extras and medibuntu codecs I realized that it ...
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System hangs on video playing
Whenever I start playing a video on my ubunt10.10 on players like vlc or totem the whole system hangs abruptly and mouse and keyboard are become unresponsive but audio still plays.
Can any one please ...
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Video players are showing videos with inverted colors in Natty 11.04 [closed]
All video players are showing videos, local video files in many different formats (flv, webm, ogg, 3gp, mp4), in negative/inverted colors. The same videos are displayed ok by firefox with some ...
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Videos not displayed in Ubuntu
I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my Lenovo machine, having 1.5 GB of RAM and a wide screeen LCD Dell monitor (I think videos have a 16:9 aspect ratio).
The problem is I am not able to see videos in ...
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problem with .wax format
I installed Ubuntu 10.4 onto a pc for an elderly woman. It was supposed to solve the problems she was having with windows, ie: she would constantly remove things, or try to fix problems herself. So I ...
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how to configure proper video-player video output for Unichrome-Pro card?
After upgrade to 12.04.1 from 10.04, all video players yield blank screen.
VLC has been made to show video properly by setting its video output to "X11 (XCB)" while it was set to "XVideo (XCB)" by ...
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High quality videos are jittery on Ubuntu 12.04
This is a pretty new install. I have activated ATI drivers (some reason the post release updates one won't download) and I have VLC. My computer can handle HD videos fine, and they run flawlessly on ...
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Play a movie looped with a reverse
I have an animation in a .mp4 file that I want to seamlessly play:
Loop[ Forward (Start -> End) Backwards (End -> Start) ]
I can achieve the same effect by encoding a new video, but that ...
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Which players are known to be able or not to be able to play DVD saved as a directory on a Toshiba AC100 (ARM)
The answer to this question should help one to choose the player to run in Ubuntu 12.04 on Toshiba AC100 (ARM) if one wants to play a DVD saved in a directory in the filesystem. The layout of the ...
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Which players are known to be able or not to be able to play MP4 video in Ubuntu 12.04 on Toshiba AC100 (ARM) [closed]
The answer to this question should help one to choose the player to run in Ubuntu 12.04 on Toshiba AC100 (ARM) if one wants to play an MP4 video, like the follwing video:
~ $ mediainfo The\ Last\ ...
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How can I add sites for SubDownloader or SMPlayer to search in?
I am new in Linux. I have installed Ubuntu with WUBI three days before and I have not opened my Windows all these days. The only thing I miss is the ability of BS.Player to find subtitles.
I have ...
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SD card or USB mem freeze music and videos
I run Ubuntu 12.x on SD card or USB drive freeze music and videos
Music is repeat, scratched record or some times sound stop, until mouse is moved or keyboard is pressed. Sound play okay and again ...
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How to keep volume optimum irrespective of bitrate?
I am using VLC media player on Ubuntu 12.04. A few videos having high bit-rate play sound very loudly. To an extent I feel that it may affect my speakers.
Some references:
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Movie Player Plays Sound but No Video
I just installed 12.04 LTS in my machine, and when I use movie player, it only plays the sound and shows no video.
The file I've been trying to play is mp4. I installed ffmpeg from the terminal if ...
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Why isn't VLC the default video player?
Why does Ubuntu come with Totem set as default? Is there a reason or am I just wrongly assuming everybody thinks Totem is actually inferior to VLC?
Edit: not to mention VLC is vastly known as perhaps ...
