Questions related to video playback and recording in Ubuntu. For questions about video cards, use "graphics".
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Saving subtitles found by the VLC extension “Subtitle Finder”?
I found a VLC script called 'Subtitle finder' (here) that downloads and displays video subtitles 'on-the-fly': they are downloaded and displayed during playback, and it works great, but does not saves ...
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Why videos play in Ubuntu-provided LibreOffice, but not in LibreOffice from community-supplied installers?
When I install LibreOffice from Ubuntu repository, import and playing of videos (flv, mp4...) works just fine. If I uninstall that version and install LibreOffice from the LO download page, the same ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 - VMware 4 Video Crash
I'm having issues with vmware 4 and ubuntu 12.10.
My screen appears green/red on the desktop, but the control bars appear on normal colors.
Already changed the resolution / color settings but without ...
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ffmpeg resize “could not find codec parameters”
I'm a newbee to ubuntu and need your help: (32bit ubuntu 12.10) my command:
ffmpeg -i ../output_images/particles%04d.png -r 30 -b 30000k final_movie.avi
works for my 800x800 *.png pictures ...
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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS with board integrated video issue
I have a AMD a75m-itx board with integrated video,the application requires Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 32-bit to run. However, I have an issue with the screen resolution not going to 1920 x 1080p. The Catalyst ...
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Downloading videos to an external drive with youtube-dl
My Hard drive has very little free space left. Thus I am trying to get youtube-dl to save the videos onto my external drive. With no luck, so far. Has anyone tried that? Or any ideas on how to ...
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s-video not working in ubuntu 12.10
I am not a techie. I am new to linux as well. My computer is M115-S3094 toshiba laptop. I could not setup multiple displays via s-video. can someone help.
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Is 12.10 avconv's image sequence support (img%03d.jpg) broken?
I'm using avconv version 0.8.5-6:0.8.5-0ubuntu0.12.10.1, and am trying to encode a sequence of PNGs into a video, using the wildcard format (avconv -f image2 -i img%d.jpg /tmp/a.mpg), found in both ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit won't play DVDs
I have a Lenovo T400 with an Intel Cenrino 2 vPro prcessor and I am running Ubuntu 12.04 64bit. For the most part, everything is running great, but I have one problem. For some reason I can not play ...
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MPlayer: your system is too slow to play this!
I just tried playing back a 1080p AVCHD video file recorded at 60 FPS with my Sony DSLR on my Ubuntu 12.04 workstation, and to my surprise MPlayer was not able to play the video smoothly. I copied the ...
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Files won't show up in DLNA end point (Samsung TV)
I have installed both XBMC and miniDLNA in an effort to have a DLNA server to stream videos from my machine to my samsung tv. The TV recognizes both XBMC and miniDLNA under its source, but when I go ...
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How to use HDMI port as input? [closed]
Can I visualize an HDMI signal on my PC? If so, how?
I would like to see a 1080p HDMI signal with my High Definition PC monitor.
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Webcam on Lenovo U310 has no video
I've bought a Lenovo U310, installed Ubuntu 12.10 and wanted to use the internal webcam with Skype and Google Hangout. But I cannot get any video signal out of it. Other apps like cheese can. Audio or ...
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Video issues - driver, perhaps
I am fairly certain the following issues are related, which is why I post them together, here. Something needs to be set up to make video run properly on my system but I have literally no idea what, ...
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Problems watching online jw player videos in ubuntu 12.10
I'm trying to watch an online video powered by jw player. I use Ubuntu 12.10 and the following happens: If I allow Firefox to load the whole video, takes about 5 minutes, I can watch it. In Chrome I ...
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Really Good Video Editor for Linux [duplicate]
I need to find out about a good movie editor. I need one that has a lot of features. Any ideas?
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Python runs way faster while the machine is shutting down?
This morning when I was shutting my machine down from an overnight test of running openCV to display a data stream from one of my cameras, I noticed that my frame rates nearly doubled in the video ...
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Can't run ubuntu 12.04 problem seems to be video driver, card is via s3 pro savage 4
I start "Run ubuntu from this USB" and it loads and shows Ubuntu dots screen but when this finish the screen doesn't show welcome screen or anything else and I need to force shutdown with power button
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Nvidia driver not loaded
I had a weird problem just before.
My Nvidia driver seemingly wasn't loaded properly when I booted up my machine, as my resolution was completely messed up and even lsmod didn't ouput any nvidia ...
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Xubuntu 1080p HD video play and CPU usage
I am looking for a light version of Linux. I tried out Unity desktop but it is a bit too much for my laptop so I switched to Mint Cinnamon. It is less heavy but I could not install my graphics card ...
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Driver da placa de video Intel HD Graphics [closed]
eu tenho essa placa de video mais nos detalhes do sistema não diz quanto de memoria ela tem, eu já tentei varios tipos de comandos no terminal mais não da certo, como eu faço pra instalar esse driver, ...
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Converting from mp4 to Xvid avi using avconv?
I normally use avidemux to convert mp4s to Xvid AVI for my Philips Streamium SLM5500. Normally I select MPEG-4 ASP (Xvid) at Two Pass with an average bitrate f 1500kb/s for video and AC3 (lav) audio ...
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How do I resume an interrupted video stream recording?
I'm trying to start a recording every evening, starting from 19:00 and stopping at 02:00. The webcam does export its stream as rtsp video stream and I am able to start the recording correctly with VLC ...
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can't scan videos with mythbuntu 12.04.2 + updates
I'm in the process of updating my system. Have been using Mythdora prior, so new to Mythbuntu. I installed mythbuntu 12.04.2 desktop amd64 and let it update during the install. The default path for ...
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SMPlayer doesn't work with VDPAU?
I recently bought a Nvidia GT 440, and installed the proprietary nvidia-experimental-310 driver.
Every player seems to be working alright with VDPAU, except Mplayer frontends like SMPlayer.
Any ...
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How can I remotely stream videos to my tablet?
I'd like to be able to watch my videos that I keep on my desktop running Ubuntu 12.04.2 on my tablet (Nexus 7) when they're connected to different networks. For example, when I'm at my girlfriend's ...
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Any alternative to subdownloader? [duplicate]
I just wonder if there is any alternative to subdownloader, to batch download subs.
Thanks!
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How to transfer a video from an iPad to Ubuntu One?
I have a 3.5 Gb video on my iPad that I would like to edit on my Ubuntu machine. The USB transfer always dies at about 2 Gb, so I thought I would try going through Ubuntu One. I cannot find out how to ...
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How to add MIME Type for the Apache webserver?
In ubuntu, i am running simple html page that can run mp4 video, i have configured Apache Server and have run simple test page for hello world, its working fine. In Apache Webserver i have read that ...
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Cannot get USB Capture device to work (Pinnacle Dazzle DVC150b)
I have just migrated from Windows to Ubuntu Linux 12.04. Everything was detected and some working even better (bluetooth mouse, for instance).
BUT (there's always a "but"), my Pinnacle Dazzle DVC150b ...
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skype does not see logitech pro 9000 - ubuntu 12.04
This camera works fine with cheese, but while it appears as the USB device skype recognizes, there is no video shown.
This post and others mention libv4l-0.
apt-get install libv4l-0 reports that ...
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(ubuntu server) display says cannot display this video mode?
i am new to linux/ubuntu, i am attempting to build a home media server, i did my research and ubuntu server is supposed to win me over haha so here we go....
i downloaded the latest Ubuntu Server.iso ...
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Catalyst : Noisy fans only during video playback despite using hardware acceleration
I encounter very loud fans even playing simple 480p videos on fglrx...I have enabled xvba and have double checked the status in VLC and Mplayer-Vaapi builds.
Also XBMC-xvba branch doesnt seem to help ...
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How do I Record a console session?
I know how to get to the console on my computer by pressing Ctrl Alt F1 - F6.
When I run a screen recording program and switch to console and then switch back by pressing Ctrl Alt F7, I save the ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ATI HD 3600
How can I install my graphics card ATI HD 3600 on ubuntu 12.04 LTS ? please help me.
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Encountering problem in Mozilla browser [duplicate]
In my Mozilla browser when I open Youtube it doesn't play any video. Although it doesn't recommend any missing plugin to install, but just shows an error.
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I have problems with playing videos of any kind [duplicate]
I am going to take a wild guess here and blame catalyst drivers for that. Unfortunately, OSS drivers are not really an option since I have a new model of the AMD graphic card.
The problem is present ...
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Is there video editing software with an API?
Basically what I need is video editing software that allows me to put together a video through java (or other languages), plugins or whatever method is available for doing so.
I want to put together ...
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Video hangs with nvidia 9600 GT
System seems to "hang in the foreground" but continues processing in the background. This appears to happen primarily during operations that rely on 3D acceleration. My system is as follows:
ABit ...
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Ubuntu runs terribly slow on my desktop [duplicate]
I have a Ubuntu 12.10 partition on my secondary SSD, while the bootloader and windows 7 partition are one another SSD. My desktop is a gaming rig running an Intel i5 3570k, ati Radeon HD 7870 OC, 8gb ...
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Is it possible to do a lossless conversion from m4v to webm?
I have several m4v files, which I need to convert to webm.
I am using ffmpeg for doing so and have used commands such as:
ffmpeg -i myfiletoconvert.m4v output.webm
The conversion works fine, and ...
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twitch.tv video full screen opens on different monitor?
I have a Nvidia eVGA GeForce GTX 680 and I am running three monitors off of it. Whenever I watch the live streams on twitch.tv and I want to watch in full screen via the little button on the bottom of ...
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ffDiaporama for Ubuntu 10.10 [closed]
How can I install the new version ffDiaporama on Ubuntu 10.10 ?
Is it possible ?
I use 1.2.1 version ffDiaporama
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AAKKK! 12.10 Messed my display up! Help
Okay so I had a pretty good set up going.
I have a great machine, decided to take plunge and run Linux as my primary OS.
Totally loving it BTW wish I had made the switch years ago.
So I installed ...
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how to fix “nvida kernel has version 310.14. but this driver component has version 304.64” Ubuntu 12.04
upgrading. nvidia. drivers and wound up with this errorr message.. start up ggoes to terminal sessions. Ttry to. launch with X. , get this error
how do I fix this from a terminal session. ...
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“Twixtor” ? Any open source equivalent for Ubuntu Linux?
I am looking for something like "Twixtor" / Slow motion / photomorph. Is there any open source equivalent for Ubuntu Linux?
Here are some video samples showing this effect:
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How can I dub an audio track over a video I'm making with avconv?
So to start out with, I having figured out how to animate a number of still frames into a video, like this:
avconv -f image2 -i %06d.png -r 24 -qscale 1 aniron.avi
I have a bunch of files in the ...
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green dots on youtbe videos [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why is Google Chrome displaying artifacts in YouTube?
This issue only comes out when watching youtube videos not on vimeo or others.The video says it all ...
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How to increase video smoothness?
I am having issues when watching videos/movies on my laptop with ubuntu 12.04, had the same issues on Kubuntu.When watching I can see small lines/video tearing, like it has lower than it should ...
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blinking vga monitor
I have a Samsung SyncMaster P2470HN monitor and every time I plug it in and set it for use it starts to blink intermittently every 2 seconds. First it show the workspace, then it blinks and shows the ...
