Questions tagged [video]
Questions related to video playback and recording in Ubuntu. For questions about video cards, use "graphics".
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USB webcam working on guvcview, but no on chrome and firefox (ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS)
I have a HP Pavilion TS 14 Notebook PC, which has an integrated webcam Chicony HP Truevision HD camera. I'm using Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS. I purchased a USB webcam (it was a cheap one with no specific ...
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ubuntu crash semingly random during video
I've installed Ubuntu 20.04 onto a hardrive on my computer, and I love it. It's gotten to the point I prefer it over windows, (which I use for gaming) but theres this one issue that really doesn't ...
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Files with date "Unknown" but files have date created in meta data
I am rather confused why nemo is reporting that some files have no date set. Which means I cannot order my files by Date. This is only happening with my GoPro videos I will add. But when checking I ...
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Keyboard lag when playing video
While VLC runs, I find that my keyboard becomes very erratic. It repeats letters, misses letters, changes up the order, puts several seconds worth of lag between input and display, varying the ...
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Is there a way to play a video with ffplay by clicking on the video icon?
For some reason all the movies I work with cannot be played with the ubuntu Video application or VLC. Right now the only way to play them is using the excellent player ffplay from the console.
My ...
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Any technology for full body video with slides in Zoom?
Given the surge of COVID cases many of us have to find different ways for giving online lectures. I use Zoom in Ubuntu for lectures and I would like to know if there is any technology or combination ...
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Zoom freezes on Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS
So, I installed Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS on a new Lenovo E 15 Thinkpad and I'm experiencing issues with Zoom. Every time I join a new meeting the video freezes after some time (usually a couple of minutes). ...
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Video does not load in chrome browser
This is a rather strange bug, when you turn on the PC and go to chrome, the videos are played, but after some time, further playback is not available. I would put up with it, but when this bug occurs, ...
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Hardware acceleration in Firefox not wokring with AMD integrated GPU
I have run into issues trying to use hardware acceleration for video decoding on Firefox 95.0.1 on Ubuntu 21.10, I am using the package downloaded from apt. I have previously set it up on my old ...
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Converting multiple WebMs to MP4
So, I've been researching how to convert all WebM videos to MP4 in a directory.
I've looked for about half an hour for results, but unfortunately, Google isn't being my
best friend. I found a simple ...
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Video gets choppy and stuck in full screen mode when streaming videos
Have an interesting problem on my hands. When streaming videos in full-screen on netflix in either chromium or firefox, after a while (about 20-30 minutes in) the video will get choppy every 2 minutes ...
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video driver Dell Poweredge T110II on board video
I have a couple of Dell Poweredge T110II lite servers.
When I tried installing 18.04.4LTS, the video output would not match the screen - words off the screen, above, below and off the left side of the ...
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How to merge multiple video files with different codecs? MP4/H.265
I have a very very very ugly script to merge multiple files of my football games (I have 10 cameras a game) and now I am starting to make highlights of each game. But some of the cameras have ...
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Elgato Systems GmbH Game Capture HD60 S+ Not Working with USB3.0
I have two Ubuntu installations and my newer laptop can connect properly with Video Capture card on USB3.0, but desktop can only connect with USB2.0. Any ideas as to what the issues might be ...
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Wayland with Intel Graphics results in graphical stuttering - is there a solution?
I've been using wayland with intel 520 graphics and, for the most part, it works excellently. However, I noticed that any hardware accelerated 1080p video playback (VLC,MPV etc) causes stuttering, not ...
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mkvtoolnix mkvmerge makes short video repeat itself
I have used to mkvtoolnix functionality "mkvmerge" to play a sound file over a video that I made:
$ mkvmerge -o outFile.mkv -A vokoscreen-2021-11-20_21-51- bensound-popdance.mp3
This makes ...
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External DELL screen is not working with Ubuntu 21.04 on Thinkpad
I am trying to connect my Lenovo, Thinkpad laptop with my DELL external screen via HDMI. Either the external screen blinks and shows the colors in very bad quality or it doesn't connect all with "...
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how to make firefox's picture in picture window always on top?
Having the video on top of other windows is the point of Picture in Picture feature in Firefox and it is the default behavior in windows, but in Ubuntu, Firefox's picture in picture is not on top by ...
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Unexpected output from ffmpeg in bash script
I'm fairly new to writing bash scripts. I wrote a script with the goal of fixing HEVC encoded MP4 files that are missing the ctts atom. It is based on this script from a Plex forum user. The script ...
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Old video adapters cannot to play more than 30 frames per second videos
I use Ubuntu-Studio 20.04.3 LTS inside two desktop computers and one laptop computer.
That laptop is a HP 250 G5 device, which we can consider as an old computer.
The internal video adapter of that ...
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Internet Video Playback Choppy Ubuntu 20.04.3 LST
Dual booting Ubuntu 20.04.3 LST and Windows. Ubuntu seems to work perfectly, apart from internet videos are choppy/juttery (framerate is consistent apart from momentary drops to very low framerates)
I ...
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Webcam not working, but works on Windows
Hello dear Ubuntu community
My webcam is not working. On Windows 10 it works fine, no problems. lsusb shows no webcam. Cheese says there is an error.
I am running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. I am new to Ubuntu ...
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YouTube videos on Chrome are slow to start
I am using Ubuntu 20.04.
I just started to have a strange problem, every time I play a youtube video it has like 10 seconds of the loading screen (where the loading animation plays) and then it starts ...
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Youtube don't stop to play audios
I would like to ask the community for help with a problem that is bothering me.
In my firefox 93.0 (64 bit), ubuntu 20.04.3, youtube doesn't stop playing audios, and videos, even when I have it paused ...
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Video freezing, audio continues. Must hard restart to fix
I am having an issue where the video on the screen will freeze up, though audio continues just fine. This happens most often when I am launching a program, but has also happened completely randomly, ...
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After installing dvd source for playing dvd's I got this!
I installed restricted extras, multiverse, other codecs over a week period periodically found out how to get libdvdcss2, and libdvdread4, both where not supplied by the terminal, bash or shell. ...
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Chrome keyboard shortcuts while playing local videos?
Google Chrome can play local videos (which is useful, because it's safer than regular video players due to the sandboxing it uses).
However, it doesn't have any keyboard bindings except space for &...
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If playback doesn’t begin shortly, try restarting your device
Please help guys. I get this annoying error whenever I play any video. It buffers for 10 seconds and then starts. Buffering is there whenever I play any video but error only shows in youtube. When I ...
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`ffmpeg` doesn't recognize input from pipe for merging mp4 via concat demuxer
I want to merge mp4 files via the concat demuxer and cannot get it to work with a script.
I am using the script from another AskUbuntu answer, called concatmp4 here:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
if [ $# -lt 1 ...
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Create video from images using ffmpeg and piping
I'd like to make a video of the last 10 images in a particular folder. I am trying to do this in a single line command instead of creating a list. I was trying the following, but it errors out like ...
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Hardware acceleration chrome+youtube?
I am having an issue watching hd (720 or 1080) videos on Ubuntu 21.04 fresh install. I get really high cpu usage (50% on all cores) which is pretty high for a 720p vid. I tried watching the same video ...
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Screen recording softwares not working in ubuntu 21.04 [duplicate]
Screen recording softwares such as Kazam and Simple Screen Recorder are not working in my ubuntu 21.04 pc. The screen gets recorded but when I view the video only black screen appears with mouse ...
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Using ffmpeg to cut up video at multiple points
I have a video that is a football game. I would like to cut the time before the game, during half time and finally the end of the game.
Total Clip Length 1h 51m or 111m
Ideally the cuts and time are ...
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mpv error with mp4 files in Wayland: "VA error: wayland: Wayland roundtrip error: Protocol error (errno 71)" [closed]
Ever since the 21.04 switch to Wayland, mpv has been saying:
[vo/gpu/wayland] GNOME's wayland compositor is known to have many serious issues with mpv. Switch to GNOME's xorg session for the best ...
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My Kodicom 4400R Camera cards are not working after upgrading to 20.04LTS server
These cards were working under a 16.04 server but that server died so I built up a new box running 20.04 and, when I install the cards, they don't work.
I was trying to view the camera with zoneminder ...
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Elgato HD60 Pro with Ubuntu?
I currently have a Windows 10 Pro machine that I would like to move over to Ubuntu in the near future. I have been researching how the various pieces of software I use as part of my workflow would ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 desktop horrible video and mouse on Firefox
I have an old reliable workstation that was 16.04 until a couple weeks ago. I upgraded to 18.04 and then after a few days to 20.04. On both 18 and 20, video in Firefox is horrible, like 1.5 frames ...
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ubuntu (21.04) get's into loop when playing online video
Sometimes when I watch videos from one site, they get stucked in short loop with video and sound but I can't do absolutely nothing except shutdown computer by holding power button. Any idea what could ...
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Screen flickering on Inspiron 16 Plus 7610 after installing 20.04 LTS
After sometime flickering it prints the message:
CPU pipe B FIFO underun
I've tried to disable C-states as suggested in https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/588457/drmintel-cpu-fifo-underrun-irq-...
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crop webcam output
I am using Ubuntu 20.04.3. I have a USB webcam. I can control various aspects of the webcam output using v4l2-ctl e.g.
v4l2-ctl --set-ctrl focus_auto=1,white_balance_temperature_auto=1,...
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Browser video interruptions
When I play videos either on chrome or firefox it interrupts playback for a split second every few minutes.
PC was just installed with xubuntu. Regarding to lsb_release -a version is as follows: ...
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Daily video log app ubuntu like Jake Sully's from avatar
Is there anything daily video log for Ubuntu 20.4 LTS GNU like Jake Sully's from avatar did? The image has been attached for a better understanding:
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Can't watch Udemy on Ubuntu 20.04
I tried many ways like:
Install "Gstreamer plugins from the bad set",
Installing ubuntu-restricted-extras,
Toggle DRM,
Turn of Use hardware acceleration,
Install FFmpeg. But nothing works. ...
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Is there a way to make a "sound" surveillance script?
I'm looking a way to built something like a sound surveillance box.
I mean something that records audio/video on sound events captured by microphone.
For example it should record 5 seconds audio/video ...
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Is there a Linux VLC version which supports the SRT (Secure Reliable Transport) protocol?
I use OBS Studio to stream live video using the SRT protocol.
To receive the stream, the current Windows and MacOS versions of VLC can be used.
But the Linux versions were compiled without libsrt, and ...
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FFmpeg: How to add watermark after 60 seconds?
Right now I am using:
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -i watermark.png \
-filter_complex overlay=W-w-5:H-h-5 \
-codec:a copy -preset ultrafast -async 1 output.mp4
I want the watermark to be displayed after 60 ...
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Can't change default application for .3gp files
I manually changed /etc/gnome/defaults.list file to set a different application than Totem for playing video files. It is actually a specific wrapper script around Totem that sets a few things before ...
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Excessive video buffering on a minimal laptop running Ubuntu 18.04
I have a Dell Latitude E7240 on which I installed Ubuntu 18.04. It has 8Gb RAM and a 16Gb mSATA SSD which is 2/3rds full with the OS. My problem is too much video buffering, which may be due to a ...
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Pixelated video while in Ubuntu 18.04
When I play some video using VLC or default Ubuntu 18.04 video player, the video seems pixelated. Screenshots from Video and VLC.
I create a simple .HTML file that load the video using the video ...
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How to open a video file in Windows using the Ubuntu terminal?
So I am learning the Linux/Ubuntu command line. One of the things I want to be able to do is to use the Ubuntu terminal (Windows Subsystem for Linux) to open video files (mp4) on my computer (Windows ...