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 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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How can I maximum compress video files?
I received 4 .mov files from a client that they want on their mobile website via SlideShowPro. Each original file was between 200 and 400 mb. I've gotten each one down to about 30 mb using ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Screensaver suppression on video playback [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I stop the screensaver from turning on when I watching online videos?
I migrated from Ubuntu 10.10 to Xubuntu 11.10 (clean install). Previously when I played ...
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4answers
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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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1answer
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Fast video playback with no sound
My PC has a build-in VT1828S chip. The connection between PC and monitor (which has built-in speakers) is through an HDMI cable.
Audio preferences shows 2 devices for audio output: analog stereo and ...
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What is an easy video editor? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Application for slicing video
I just need to cut some parts from a video that is too long. What would be a good (GUI) app to do that?
All the ones I tried (pitivi, ...
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1answer
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How do I install drivers for graphics and sound?
I recently shifted to Ubuntu 12.04 from windows 7. I completely removed Windows and then installed Ubuntu.
However, I can't find a way to download and install drivers for my video and audio hardware ...
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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 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 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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1answer
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Why are embedded flash videos (like youtube) so heavy on the GPU?
I have noticed (in psensor, and listening to the fan) that my GPU is terribly hot when playing youtube videos.
What happens at that point? Is this related to Flash in Ubuntu?
Youtube in Firefox and ...
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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 to get intel 82845 graphic drivers for ubuntu?
When I had XP, after installing it, I used to run the setup.exe file for graphic driver. This used to greatly improve graphic quality, like good looking small icons, cleaner videos, and so on. Now, ...
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ubuntu and vlc — make default and hue
I have recently installed vlc. I have found that when i play videos on vlc, the hue of the color of the video is off. I have to constantly readjust it.
Also how can i make vlc my default player for ...
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1answer
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Record from VHS tapes
I recently got a USB TV Tuner card. I want to digitize old family VHS tapes. However the TV Tuner card driver doesn't do audio, only video. I have plugged a 3½mm jack from the video machine my laptop. ...
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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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VLC for flash video
Is it possible to play all flash videos using VLC because flash is consuming a lot of processing power? In addition with VLC I will be able to record every stream for example Ustream etc.
I am using ...
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4answers
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How do I install the latest ATI Catalyst Video Drivers in Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal?
There are other threads related to this question for Ubuntu 12.04, however THEY DO NOT APPLY TO 12.10. This is not a duplicate of another thread if the referenced thread doesn't answer the question ...
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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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How to burn a DVD which is playable in an external player?
I have several .dvd files which were created using OpenShot Video Editor. To export the videos from OpenShot, I used the DV-NTSC widescreen and DV-PAL Widescreen property.
Can anyone tell me how I ...
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Can't generate thumbnails in Nautilus
Before I upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04, thumbnails on video files worked nicely, after the upgrade, thumbnails aren't generating on video files and only on video files, most of them are .mkv files. I have ...
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Why aren't file properties shown for MP4 files?
I am using ubuntu 12.04. I have a .mp4 video for which I want to change default media player to vlc.
When I try to go to properties by right clicking on that video.
I get the following message. ...
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1answer
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Unsupported Video Chipset - How do I force Low-Graphics mode?
I'm a Ubuntu noobie - but I got my laptop dual-booted with XP and Ubuntu 11.04, with all updates installed.
I have a Dell Inspiron 5160 with an XGI Volari XP5 video card. It supports 640x480 - ...
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Compiling AVLD on 11.04
I'm trying to install AVLD 1.4 on Natty.
I've unpacked the files, but when I compile them with make, it fails:
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.38-8-generic-pae/build M=/home/jmendeth/Downloads/avld_0.1.4 ...
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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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2answers
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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 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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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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Sony Vaio FW350 reboots instead of waking up after sleep/suspend
After I suspend and try to wake up my laptop it just automatically reboots every time. I had this problem in 11.04, but it happened occasionaly. Now I'm with 11.10 and it occurs every time.
It is a ...
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What program to use to create subtitles for a video?
I have a video that I want to create subtitles for.
Is there a program that can perform rudimentary speech-to-text in order to
set the correct start/stop of each individual subtitle
create ...
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2answers
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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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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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Mouse pointer strange problem
i have last ubuntu installed (10.10), but from an year and thousand updates, video drivers updates, an hundreds of tricks, the mouse pointer is showed like an UGLY square...
These are the ...
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Screencast with both mic and system sounds at the same time
I'd like to make a screencast that records both mic (audio input) and system sounds (audio output) at the same time. For example, so that I can capture a screencast while talking to someone on Skype ...
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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 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 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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1answer
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How can I stream my desktop via Ustream?
I'm looking to stream my desktop live via a service such as ustream and having extreme difficulty in finding a solution.
I've tried WebcamStudio and it could only use FME files which don't work with ...
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1answer
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How to do GIF animations for instructions and learning purposes over GUI?
I am trying to categorize many similar threads here.
For example, I find this GIF animation freaking cool in this answer here. How can I do this kind of animations? How can I make sure it does not ...
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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 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, ...
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Video converter: ogv to avi (or another more common format)
I've been using recordMyDesktop to record stuff. A little slow to compile but it records fine. However, when I try to convert from ogv to avi (I've used Devede and an mencoder script) the audio and ...
