Questions related to video playback and recording in Ubuntu. For questions about video cards, use "graphics".
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Choppy and/or extremely fast video playback
Tried Ubuntu, and now Mint, had the same issue on both and asked questions on both and didn't get an answer. I thought it might be a flash problem, but I'm not convinced of that. When I play a video, ...
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Why are my videos playing speeded up with no audio, but work fine if I log in as a guest?
Since the start of this week I have been experiencing a glitch in the multimedia on my Samsung R518 laptop. I have 2 problems:
Videos in every player are speeded up around 2 or 4 times (including ...
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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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Recording video with audio from webcam?
I've tried cheese and wxCam and both of those record the video fine, but there is no audio in the videos. How can i record a video from my webcam with audio as well?
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video/audio output via HDMI Ubuntu 12.04
I've been out of the Ubuntu loop for quite a while now and have a completely new laptop now. Just installed Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit and would like to output my video and my audio via HDMI to my ...
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Is watching a video on HDD using VLC, or a youtube video in a browser considered as 'computer idle'?
I have Ubuntu 11.04 (natty).
I have read 'Screen goes blank when VLC is playing video'
My question is similar, but also I have this problem when viewing a video on youtube.
I am not quite clear ...
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How to get videos on Yahoo finance to play
Until a few months ago, these videos played ok in Firefox and Opera.
Then they stopped playing in Firefox
Now they don't play at all. Any ideas for a fix?
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Record and display Kinect audio and video via avconv
I'm trying to record audio and video from a Kinect using avconv but I seem to have trouble specifying the right options.
avconv -f video4linux2 -video_size 640x480 -c:v h264 -c:a ac3 -i /dev/video1 ...
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How can I change the speed of a video?
I have some clips of a sunrise, sunset, traffic that each last around an hour. How can I change the speed of these videos so that the one-hour video lasts only one minute? (That is, I want to create ...
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How to force minimize or switch a video / game - Bug?
I'm comming from Windows 7, and something that I loved there was to Alt+Tab in any Game or video and switch to another app without problem.
Here, I tried with Age of Mythology (Wine), that I play it ...
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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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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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ATI Radeon HD 5650 on Ubuntu 12.10
We've got a laptop running an ATI Radeon HD 5650 and we're trying to install Ubuntu 12.10 on it, yet without luck getting the drivers for the video card running correctly.
On the internet I've seen a ...
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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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How to i install my video driver for nvidia geforce 610M on ubuntu 12.04
I've just installed ubuntu on my laptop and noticed that my nvidia driver wasnt installed. So I installed nvidia-current with the terminal command sudo apt-get install nvidia-current
but now my ...
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How to fix inverted video on skype?
I just installed 12.10 on my Lenovo y510 laptop. The webcam worked fine while setting up Ubuntu, it also works fine with Google Chat and Cheese. But with Skype 4, the video is inverted 180 degrees. I ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 two graphics cards
I have been struggling to get my two graphics cards to work. One is on the board and one is not.
I can change the BIOS on my MSI motherboard to "Internal, PCI, or PCI-E".
Internal of course the one ...
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Is there a way to improve video performance on my Dell Mini 10?
Is there a way to improve video performance on my Dell Mini 10?
I have a fresh copy of 12.04 installed and I am having trouble with video performance.
Watching things on Youtube is painful, the audio ...
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How do I upload videos using the Ubuntu One apps?
Love the app for my android phone and iPad. I take a picture, it's on my PC and laptop. Brilliant. Only problem is that this doesn't work for videos.
Is this a known issue with the ubuntuone app? If ...
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Skype shuts down when the other person tries sharing their screen
I have installed skype on my 11.10 and it keeps shutting down as soon as the other person switches of its video.
While I have read that I need to delete the shared.xml file I cant seem to locate the ...
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Glitch in video taken by gtk-recordmydesktop
Using gtk-recordmydesktop, I took this video that doesn't have any issue at its beginning (here I'm only focusing on a few seconds from the point both links start at). gtk-recordmydesktop yields .ogv ...
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Can't install 12.04 with S3 Savage
I can't install 12.04.2 from CD because the video is corrupt. I have an S3 pro Savage4 video card and a LCD display. After booting, the top half of the screen sort of appears but is really unreadable. ...
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Problem setting monitors to native resolution with Dell laptop (Ubuntu 13.04)
I've just installed Ubuntu 13.04 on my Dell D631 laptop. I was using Windows 7 previously which coped perfectly with my set up. I dock it all the time in a docking station so that I can use two Dell ...
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Unable to play certain youtube videos
I am in the process of moving from Windows to Ubuntu as my primary and only OS. My wife is taking only classes and I have found that youtube videos from Ashford University are the only ones that do ...
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12.10 or 12.04 on Asus U36SG?
I have installed Ubuntu 12.10 on my laptop and there are some problems:
1.I couldn't install the video driver (gpu 610m) neither from nVidia's site nor manually from the terminal.
2.Battery life ...
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How stream a video on a server with VLC?
I have a Raspberry Pi with a video in /home/user/documents directory.
I would like to play this video on my computer by streaming it with VLC.
Can you help me?
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How do I enable VSync in the browser on Lubuntu using Intel GMA HD?
How can I enable vsync in LXDE? Right now I have a lot of tearing when watching videos in the browser, while I don't notice this in videos played by mplayer.
I suspect that vsync is disabled, though ...
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Video hangs while playing on VLC
I have just installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.I am unable to play any video.When I play video on VLC the video freezes and after few min it moves to some other frame and also the sound is breaking.
PC ...
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Black/purple screen after installing and rebooting ubuntu 12.04LTS on a Dell inspiron 1100 series laptop
Please can you help?
I tried to revive my old Dell laptop computer by installing Ubuntu 12.04LTS in place of windows XP. After installing and rebooting, the infamous black/purple screen appears. ...
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My screen is messed up, using GeForce 8400 GS NVIDIA
My screen is all messed up. I can see everything beside my start menu and when I scroll up the mouse arrow goes up and out of the screen. It's not normal.
Do I need to install "GeForce 8400 GS ...
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How can I boost html5 video playback performance on firefox?
I have an Xtreamer Ultra 2 with vanilla Ubuntu 12.10 installed on it and I want to play HD videos with HTML5 video tag in Firefox. I've managed to find suitable video compression settings to enable ...
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Update Youtube's interface on 12.04?
I noticed that in my windows partition, YT updated their video's interface, with a clean black one and "shiny" buttons, but in my 12.04 partition with Unity I still have the older version, do I have ...
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Cursor doesn't hide in fullscreen video
I've installed bumblebee on my Ubuntu 12.10 and now the cursor doesn't hide when I watch online videos in full screen mode.
Why is that?
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Can't get video or sound
When I go to YouTube, for some reason, I'm unable to see the video that I selected and/or play it, basically nothing shows up. Also, I am unable to go wireless, I have to connect my laptop directly to ...
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Can't watch youtube videos ubuntu 12.10
I have just installed Ubuntu 12.10. I'm not able to watch videos on youtube. After some time spent on loading I got the message:
an error occurred, please try again later.
This for any video I ...
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Sager NP 3265 Display and Wireless Not Working
I purchased a new customized laptop and chose all default settings (you can see my hardware choices here: http://www.xoticpc.com/sager-np3260-clevo-w250es-p-4339.html?wconfigure=yes)
My friend told ...
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Rotate Android Videos from Portait to Landscape Format
I have an Android Galaxy and have been using it to video one of our new family members. Of course in the "heat of the moment" as she has done/does something great (like take first steps) I've been ...
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How to get mixer applet for “Built-in Audio Analog Stereo”
In pavucontrol, I can choose between RV620 HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 3400 Series] and Built-in Audio.
When the former is enabled, videos on (among others) Youtube play way too fast, but this answer ...
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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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Why is my OGV video garbled when viewed in OpenShot?
When I view my OGV video in Chrome or Totem Movie Player, my video displays fine. When I view in OpenShot, it appears all garbled in grey and bright colored blocks. I hear the sound okay, just not the ...
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How do I capture video from Handycam through USB?
I have a Sony Handycam. Under Windows I was able to capture the video to disc over USB. Is there a way to do this in Ubuntu?
When I plug the camcorder into the USB port, nothing comes up and nothing ...
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How do I get Picasa 3.9 to import/play movies?
Is it possible for Picasa 3.9 installed through WINE to import/play movies?
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video editor and custom export dimensions
I don't know much about video editing on ubuntu, I tried openshot, kdenlive, pitivi
I'm importing mpeg4 clips that are rather 1:1 ratio (864 x 870) and always the export is forced in 4:3 or 16:9 ...
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Video player that prefers accuracy over fluid playback
I need a video player/encoder that values accuracy over fluid playback, that is:
It must never drop a frame, even if this means waiting and jitters
It must scale video without interpolation (only ...
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Is there a plugin that will let me use a web cam when chatting with my MSN contacts in Empathy?
I use Empathy to chat with my friends. I can use the web cam with my Google contacts thanks to a plugin, so I want to know if there's a plugin also to the MSN contacts.
I moved to Ubuntu 12.04 from ...
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Display lag, Partial Sound lag
My specs:
AMD Athlon 4400+ 2,1 GHz 64-bit
ATI Radeon HD 3600 512 MB DDR3 800 MHz
2 GB RAM DDR2
OS Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin 64-bit
I reinstalled Ubuntu many times this week. I remember I was ...
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Assaultcube weird problems Ubuntu 12.04
I'm trying to run Assaultcube 1.1.0.4 on an Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit setup with an intel graphics card, worked fine on 11.10 32-bit, but whenever i try to change my resolution, it bounces back to 1293x715, ...
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Webcam stops/turns off when I the recorded motion seizes
I got a weird problem. My webcam stops recording when I leave the view. Then, if people move by at medium to far distances, it does not turn on again. As soon as I step into the view (close to the ...
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Logitech QuickCam Communicate STX video freeze
After upgrading to 12.04 from 10.04, I'm experiencing a strange problem with my webcam. It appears that when capturing at 320x240, there is some kind of motion filter that stops the video from ...
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Errors with Ubuntu 12.04
Last day I made an original installation of Ubuntu 12.04. By original intallation, I meant installation from the iso rather than an upgrade.
I am facing some weird problems. They are :-
a) I get an ...
