Questions related to video playback and recording in Ubuntu. For questions about video cards, use "graphics".
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How to create a screencast?
How can I create a screencast on Ubuntu? What applications are available?
The app I'm looking for has ideally all of these features:
Can record in a format that can be played back easily on any ...
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How can I find what video driver is in use on my system?
I know that sometimes I have the option to change my video display driver, and I can access this functionality by using System->Administration->Additional Drivers. But what's the simple way to see ...
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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 ...
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How do I download a YouTube video?
For a school project I need to download three youtube videos and save them to a CD. I am running Ubuntu 10.10; can anybody provide instructions on how to do this? I'm fairly new to Ubuntu so the more ...
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What video players do you recommend? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What Media Players Are there?
What video players do you recommend for ubuntu. Is there any video player that supports good playback of 720p videos in oldish hardware?
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Video editing software options?
What video editing software would you recommend on Ubuntu (or Linux in general)
and why? It can be for either beginners or experienced users.
Please only place one piece of software per response and ...
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How can I extract audio from MP4 or FLV video files?
Is there an application that allows me to extract the audio from a MP4 or FLV video file and store it as an MP3 file for use in a portable media player?
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How to set VLC as default video player?
Can't seem to set VLC as the default video player. I have gone to System Settings -> System Info -> Default Applications, and changed "Video" to VLC media player.
However, all movies still open with ...
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How to download flash (streaming) videos from sites like youtube, dailymotion, vimeo, etc.?
I have read this thread but please hear me out.
I use Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (32-bit) and I didn't bother to install the Flash plugin for Firefox as I am using a netbook and sometimes Flash caused firefox ...
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Programs to download subtitles for videos
I have many movies without subtitles, is there a program to find the right subtitles for them?
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How to prevent my screen from dimming when watching YouTube?
My screen brightness used to dim after a few seconds to preserve battery. This is default in Ubuntu 12.04. However when watching video it should not dim.
This works correctly when I watch videos ...
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How to solve jitter (or stutter) playback via Chrome flash plugin?
Since the update to 12.04, there's been a problem specifically related to audio/video playback in Google Chrome.
The problem only affected the Google version but not the Chromium nor the Firefox ...
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How to see the Video Card Temperature (Nvidia, Ati, Intel…)
Is there a command (Via terminal) to see the temperature of any video card.
Already Tried sensors with the sensors-detect applied. Does not detect for example, nvidia and ati video card temperatures.
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How to convert .mkv file into .mp4 file losslessly?
I need to convert a video file from Matroska container into mp4 container. Matroska file contains one h.264 video track and one AC3 sound track. It should be possible to do this losslessly, but how to ...
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Dual monitor Youtube full screen help
I have a dual monitor set up. The monitor to my left i use mainly for chat and sometimes tutorial pages. When im at youtube for instance and i want clik full screen the full screen automatically goes ...
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Applications to replace iTunes for iPod synchronization?
I need to synchronise my iPod Nano (5th generation) with music and podcasts (video and audio).
I can use Rhythmbox for music, but does not seem to work with Podcast.
So, what application can I use to ...
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Google Talk Video Chat
There are no video chat plugins supplied by Google for Ubuntu. They are availabe just for PC and Mac. Are there any alternatives?
UPDATE:
Google has launched official video chat plugin for Linux
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How to check video memory size?
Is there a way to check the size of the video memory? Specifically, is there one that works accurately for both integrated GPU's as well as PCI/AGP graphics cards?
Many integrated GPU's have ...
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How can I rotate a video?
Is there a way to change the rotation angle of a video file?
I have a couple of videos in the wrong direction so all I wanted is to correct it.
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best video converter
I need a good video converter software that can convert many video formats from one ot the other. On Windows I found Format Factory to be good. I would like its equivalent or something better on ...
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Why does adjusting my volume exit fullscreen videos?
When playing flash videos (youtube, vimeo, whatever) in full screen mode, using my keyboard shortcuts to adjust the volume always causes me to exit full screen mode. Unfortunately, they're my only ...
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Gaming Screen Recorder
I make gaming videos and recently installed Ubuntu and I haven't been able to find a good screen recorder for gaming. Are there any recommendations (preferably free ones) that can record in HD, use ...
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How do I convert .ts files into something useful?
I have a file that ends in .ts, which according to wikipedia is an MPEG2 file. I've never run into a file like this so I want it want the file to be in a more common format/container to use on ...
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How to copy existing movie files on ipad to watch?
I have an iPad and a desktop running Ubuntu 12.04 with lots of movie files of various formats (avi, mp4, m4v, etc).
Is it possible to transfer those files from within linux directly to the iPad ...
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Cannot watch youtube in fullscreen mode
When I am watching videos on youtube and toggle the screen to full screen or switch back from full screen to normal mode, the video stops and sometimes stops loading or starts loading from the start ...
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How to host a video conference with VLVC?
I just found out that you can use VLC and VLVC to hold video conferences between 2-10 people, and that sounds amazing, hopefully removing the heavy lean on Skype.
Can anyone tell me how to set up ...
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Good NVidia drivers for a GeForce GT 330M on a VAIO laptop?
With the latest 3 distribution versions of Ubuntu I've always had problems with NVidia GPUs. Even when I installed the official commercial drivers (which are not in the repositories and are shown as ...
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How can I extract audio track from video file and save it as mp3?
What is the easiest way to extract an audio track from a video file and save it as mp3 file?
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How can I make the background dark while watching video?
While watching videos on my desktop(not in browser) I want to make the background dark.
For eg:
In the above pic I want everything to be black except the video. I don't want to make it full screen ...
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How to make a Stop Motion or Time-lapse video with webcam?
I have a webcam that works as a v4l2 device.
What is the most convenient way to capture either a stop-motion or time-lapse video?
N.B.
stop-motion and time-lapse are related but conceptually ...
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Videos have blue faces when I play them
I started the video and it says it has no codex and it can search for it(it looked cool) and it has downloaded them and video works great, but for some reason all the faces on videos I'm watching are ...
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Why do flash players consume up to 20 times more CPU than VLC player to view exactly the same video file?
When I play a video (H264 MPEG4 AVC 320x180) online (in Firefox or Chrome) it uses to consume up to 100% CPU, but if I download it (exactly the file played) and use VLC - it takes just 5% (6% at ...
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How do I use ffmpeg's “-vf” / “-vfilters” option without recompiling ffmpeg myself?
I have ffmpeg install from apt (version 4:0.5.1-1ubuntu1). I have a video that is up-side-down, so I want to flip it vertically. The ffmpeg documentation says to use the -vf option (which I see was ...
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How to convert mkv to dvd or avi
I have some mkv files, and while Totem plays them perfectly, when i use Devede to burn them to dvd it all gets messed up: the video is ok, but the audio is out of sync.
I did see that Devede does ...
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How do I stop the screensaver from turning on when watching videos online?
My screenlock is set to five minutes. So while playing YouTube videos after five minutes the screen locks even though the video is playing. Any solutions?
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Splitting an MP4 file
what is the fastest and less resource consuming method for splitting an MP4 file?
@Alex: it didn't work, i don't know why. see the out put here:
asafche@asafche-laptop:~$ ffmpeg -vcodec copy -ss ...
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Tag and manage video files
I have lots of video files on my hard drive and I want to manage and sort them using tags. So my question is: What do you think is the best way to do this?
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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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Software to create a video slideshow?
I have a bunch of pictures I'd like to make into a basic slideshow, as a video (e.g. mpeg/avi). What software is available to do this?
I started using PiTiVi based on recommendation in another ...
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(Only) YouTube Videos automatically fast forward
I recently updated my Ubuntu from 11.10 to 12.04 lts and there seems to be a problem while I'm playing YouTube videos they, for no reason, start to fastforward (audio and video). This does not happen ...
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How can I update my NVIDIA driver?
I recently installed the opensource game 0AD. Everything went fine, but when I run it I get the error
"You are using 260.19.* series NVIDIA drivers, which may crash the game. Please upgrade to ...
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How do I tell if Ubuntu supports hardware-accelerated graphics on my laptop?
The new Gnome 3.0 requires hardware acceleration support. I wanted to try it out -- but how do I tell whether hardware acceleration is supported on my machine?
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Why isn't WebM video supported out of the box?
Ubuntu can't include non-free codecs, but has had the ability to play Ogg Theora and Vorbis files out-of-the-box for years because they're open source. Now that WebM is such a popular, free ...
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VLC will sometimes have issues displaying video in fullscreen.
Recently VLC has been having issues displaying video in fullscreen mode. AFAIK, nothing has changed with the video card drivers and it's certainly the same version of VLC. (/me shakes a fist at the ...
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Why does Chrome video performance substantially degrade after waking from suspend in 10.10?
Note: For some more details, some of which may not be true given what I've figured out, see this post.
When I first boot my computer, video performance (both native H.264 HTML5 in YouTube and Vimeo, ...
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Looking for a linux equivalent to Trans Lucy
Trans Lucy for the Mac, allows you to watch video in a semi transparent window, superimposed on top of your other windows.
You can continue to work, as all clicks on the area covered by Trans Lucy ...
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Will running dual monitors have any significant impact on system speed?
Will setting up dual monitors on a decent-but-not-too-powerful machine significantly slow down my system?
For specifics to my system, this is a 2GHz Intel Dual-core laptop with 4GB RAM and a decent ...
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Are there any free/open source alternatives to Adobe After Effects?
I've been a illustrator and graphic designer for a number of years and now I'm looking to go more into motion graphics and visual effects. Is there anything that is open source/free (not a demo, ...
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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, ...
