Questions related with Video Players and its working in Ubuntu
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How do I enable VDPAU hardware video acceleration support for non Nvidia cards?
I've read about VDPAU and how it enables mplayer to have Hardware acceleration. But i also read that it's only for Nvidia cards
How can i enable it on a non Nvidia card (mine it's a AMD but i would ...
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mp4 video playback is horrible
How can I get mp4 video to playback normal. They skip and look horrible. I was able to get them to playback on Fedora using a different setting with smplayer but nothing seems to work with Ubuntu.
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madVR Render in Ubuntu
I used to play videos in potplayer on windows using (madVR rendering
).
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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How to play embedded flash videos in external players?
As discussed in a separate question, embedded flash videos are abnormally heavy on GPU resources.
The answer given by izx here (and namely in one comment) shows that
”Flash 11+ "attempts" ...
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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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What Media Players Are there?
This question is present as a matter of historical interest. While you are encouraged to help maintain its answers, please understand that "big list" questions are not generally allowed on Ask ...
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Poor Video Playback - Low Frame Rate
I have pretty poor frame rate when playing .avi video files.
I tried VLC player, but I am still not satisfied because it is bad comparing to windows. I played some .rmvb (RealMedia) movie yesterday, ...
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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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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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How do I resume video play from the point it was stopped with VLC?
How can I play a video starting from the point it was stopped last time?
This is useful for watching long videos.
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and VLC media player.
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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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Is there a skin for VLC that would allow the same access and options as the native style?
I mean a skin that would just improve appearance but without removing the options of the native style, like the main toolbar and the playlist options (access to my music folder, freebox tv list and ...
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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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How to play .mp4 movies?
I have a .mp4 movie (it's an .mp4 file, and the "video codec" is Xvid, and the "audio codec" is mp3) that I want to play, but when I try to open it in MPlayer, it says "The steam is encrypted and ...
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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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flash videoplayer not working properly
Flashs on websites are shown without any problem on both Firefox and Chrome. However, flash video players are not working properly; just background color and nothing at all. Interestingly youtube ...
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Cannot play avi or mp4 file in both Movie Player and VLC
I downloaded some videos (both mp4 and avi) and I am unable to play them both in Movie Player and VLC.
In Movie Player, it displays error message saying "Could not determine type of stream".
When I ...
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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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GStreamer-based video player without many non-LXDE dependencies?
I want to use a GStreamer-based video player, preferably using a GTK frontend, on LXDE. I'm afraid Totem could possibly bring in a lot of GNOME dependencies, hence seeking alternatives.
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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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Changing default software for opening video files not working - any ideas?
I used the answer to this question to change the default software for opening video files to VLC player on Ubuntu 12.04. The settings say that this is now the default player and yet whenever I play ...
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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How can I play encrypted DVD movies?
My machine can't play encrypted DVDs on a fresh install. How do I add this capability? Another useful bit of information would be what programs are best for playing DVDs, once I'm able to do so. ...
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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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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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How do I delete totem's history?
How do I delete totem's history displayed in it's main menu in Natty? For example if I don't want anyone to know I'm watching... ehem Simpsons a lot?
I've tried How can I keep recent files from ...
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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 to view video file with external ac3 audio track?
I can listen to view the video with built-in audio (ac3) and listen to the audio track as regular sound file, but how to do these same time?
Can't see such options in Totem, Kplayer, VLC, KMplayer, ...
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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 ...
