Questions related to video playback and recording in Ubuntu. For questions about video cards, use "graphics".
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Upgraded to natty, why VLC no longer supresses powersave? [closed]
Just made the jump over to Natty. Fullscreen video, by VLC or flash, used to supress monitor blanking / power saving, but does so no longer.
Is it a configuration change, that I can undo?
Or is an ...
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How to properly play .mkv files?
I am having a problem while playing .mkv files. Every time I play a .mkv file, the audio can be heard but video cannot be seen. The only way to see the video if I actually right click on it or put a ...
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I can't connect to internet…how can I fix this? [closed]
I'm running Ubuntu 11.04. It doesn't recognize my video card [Nvidia 9400GT] so I have to run it in the classic mode.
I cannot connect to Internet [i am using a DSL connection] to get some drivers.
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Why is S-Video Out Not Working on an Acer 5720Z
I have an Acer 5720Z which has an S-Video out port. I have been using this port primarily to view videos on my television. This worked perfectly under 9.10, 10.04 and 10.10 but under 11.04 it does not ...
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What's a good cheap video card?
Can anyone recommend a good, cheap video card that can handle modern desktop requirements? Cheap is somewhere under $50.
I'm talking about decent 3d effects for Unity and friends, as well as playing ...
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How do i add and Force the Screen Resolution on an HDMI output? [closed]
I been trying to add a new resolution for my TV using xrandr, but this new resolution doesn't show in Monitors, also when i try to force it my screen just goes black.
Windows correctly detects all ...
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“Desktop effects could not be enabled” in VMware
I am running on a Windows 7 64 bit host.
I'm use with VMware Player.
Ubuntu 10.10.
And, i get to Visual Effect, and when i press "normal" i get this error:
Desktop effects could not be enabled
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Freeze at startup: “It seems that you do not have the hardware required to run Ubuntu” [closed]
Just after an update from Ubuntu 10.10 to 11.04 and a restart, Ubuntu freeze at startup on a dialog saying: "It seems that you do not have the hardware required to run Unity. Please choose Ubuntu ...
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Can I disable monitor dimming/screen saver when playing videos? VLC/Web(HTML5/Flash/Silverlight/QuickTime) [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I stop the screensaver from turning on when I watching online videos?
Is it possble to disable Monitor dimming/Screensaver only on video playback? For me, videos ...
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Play 2 videos in sync on a loop in Ubuntu
I have 2 videos I want to run synchronously besides each other.
I'm currently going to create 1 video file and span that over 2 monitors, but that requires some "video hacking" of getting everything ...
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I'm looking program for vector based animation/video
I want to create a video. The idea is to make a large (fixed) image where camera is flying above. I am familiar with Inkscape so I would prefer to make the image with it.
I need a program to move the ...
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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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Why does empathy show a transparent video preview and then crash?
When I try to use empathy video chat, no matter what settings I use, it shows a transparent preview, then the video window closes (crashes) I've not gotten any relevant output from the commandline, so ...
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Recommended USB video capture device
I'm going to do some reverse engineering on a device with a composite video output. It would be great if I could just plug this in to my Ubuntu box and be able to record video as well as view the live ...
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Is there any media player that can playback MSS2-encoded videos?
I have a video that is encoded with Microsoft's Windows Media Screen encoder (the FOURCC for the video codec is MSS2).
Is there anything on Ubuntu that will play this format?
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Please suggest an application to convert photos to video
I need to convert some photos to video with all frames with special effects.
Video format can be mp4, 3gp, or mpeg4...
Please suggest a good application which will convert fast.
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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 record skype video calls?
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=939048&page=3
so no xvidcap, vlc or screencast app like kazam !!!
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Can I get TV-out through VGA?
I have a VGA to RCA cable and an Intel Graphic Media Accelerator video card, but I'm not sure if my graphics card has TV-Out function capability through the VGA and if Ubuntu supports this. My laptop ...
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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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Video Recording in Ubuntu [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to create a screencast?
What Video Recording software is there that matches (or better) than the software version in Windows for FRAPS and WeGame?
Already tried ...
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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 do I enable Video Chat in Empathy for MSN and Yahoo?
Video Chat is always greyed out in Empathy (Yahoo and MSN contacts have the same issue) (2.32.1), however, video chat in Skype (Beta) Works 100% perfectly.
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Surround Sound and Video Setup
Ok. We're trying (really hard) to port from Windows to Linux (Ubuntu to be exact)
Problem is... I just doesn't work as good as a Windows Box... The box is to function as a media centre and all ...
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How can I convert an AVI file to a Blackberry-compatible format?
I need a program to convert an AVI file to a format compatible with my Blackberry. On Windows, I've tried format factory and converted the .avi file to .3gp, but the output is of very bad quality.
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Nvidia Video card only works in recovery-mode
I am trying to understand why my nvidia video card only works in recovery mode
Did I miss something?
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Reading AVCHD/M2TS files
I have a Sony Camcorder which records AVCHD discs that contains M2TS.
How can these files be read under Ubuntu?
A fresh installation of 10.10 will open the files but the playback is very choppy. The ...
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How to install my video card to the VirtualBox (Ubuntu host, Windows guest)?
I'm using the Sun VirtualBox with Guest Additions, and I'm not able to run some applications that need a 3D video card support.
The video card installed in the virtual box is "VirtualBox Graphics ...
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how can I reinstall the codecs so I can play my videos back
I used to play videos from MP4, wma files, as well as form DVDs, but for some reason, I can no more. The file gets loaded and the player starts, but it is always a black screen. No display at all.
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Where does the video we play on YouTube go?
usually, the video I played on YouTube completed I can find it on temp folder, but now nothing inside there after being played completely.
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Very fast video playback on Natty, solution? [closed]
I just upgraded a fresh install of Ubuntu 10.10 to Natty and found that every single video offline or online is played really, really fast.
So I decided to nuke my partition and reinstalled Natty ...
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What is the easiest way to record my desktop in Ubuntu? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to create a screencast?
I want to make a video tutorial on some Ubuntu functionality but don't know how to record it.
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What video conferencing software is available?
There 're somebody i want to talk with him in a video conference in Ubuntu, how can i do that?
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No BIOS, no video after Ubuntu updates
I am running Ubuntu 10.04 on a Dell Precision T3500 Desktop machine. Last week, when I ran the regular updates, upon restart my video disappeared. I could not even see the Dell startup screen or ...
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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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Optimize video filesize without quality loss
Is there a simple way (on the command line - I want to write a script which compresses all videos in a folder) to reduce the filesize of a video (almost) without quality loss? Is there a method which ...
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Video files (AVI) tags editor?
I would like to change tags of ordinary video files (AVI container). Are there any video file (AVI) tag editors available in Ubuntu ?
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Change X settings to boot into laptop with non working screen using an external monitor
My laptop committed suicide. Is there a way I can boot into my ubuntu using an external screen?
Ubuntu 10.10
video: Nvidia 9500 gm i think
I can get dual screen upto and until the ubuntu login ...
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Which video card for a 1680x1050 resolution?
i've a 22" monitor, i'm using Ubuntu 10.10.
My video card is a Radeon X1300 and i've poor performance at that resolution.
If i decrease resolution to 1280x1024 for example, i can use netbeans, ...
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Video stutter when using external drive [closed]
When using boxee to play video files off of an external western digital 1TB drive formatted NTFS, I notice a slight stutter in the video every 5-10 seconds. When using mplayer, it doesn't stutter as ...
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Removing/reducing camera shakyness? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Video stabilisation software
I strapped a video camera to my motorbike helmet and took this video: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rorymccann/4787401579/
Since it's ...
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Videos not playing properly
I am using Ubuntu 10.04. I installed VLC media player and played some videos, but it is not playing properly... I tried to play them with Totem Movie Player, but it's also not working properly.
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Smooth fullscreen 1080p playback
My computer has a PCI Express x16 socket on the motherboard. What is the minimum graphics card I need to get smooth fullscreen 1080p playback?
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How do I create a video DVD from vob files?
I wanna burn a video DVD from existing .vob files that can be played in a home video player. I've burned one but it doesn't have sound. I tried with k3b (New video DVD Project) because Brasero doesn't ...
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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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1answer
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Fast video stream encoder
This is not specific ubuntu/linux question but I hope someone can help me.
I am doing some video stream server which on slow PC (CPU 1GHz, bad GPU (via)). Does someone knows which codec should I use?
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Video crashes with 10.10 [closed]
I have installed both the 64bit and 32 bit versions of 10.10 on my Compaq Presario PC.
I first installed the 64 bit version of the OS.The video often crashed when switching user. It also went haywire ...
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Make public webcam. Which protocol, which codec. (Using VLC)
I want to use my old (1GHz) PC as webcam video stream server (like you can see those road cameras).
I thought of using VLC and already tried using http output but it was not really good. Too cpu ...
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Creating Snapshoot Gallery From Video
Anyone know of an application for creating a snapshot gallery from a video file, like this picture?
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Video freezes every few seconds
I have problems playing videos on my Ubuntu 10.10 machine. The video FREEZES every 20-25 seconds, while I could still hear the audio. I use Totem Movie Player (GStreamer) & have nVidia on-board ...
