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Turn off all monitors while watching VLC media on TV
I've created a script that slowly dims two monitors after 5 minutes of keyboard or mouse inactivity while you watch a movie on a third monitor. When you move your mouse or use your keyboard the two ...
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How to set screen borders for HDMI output
I had the same problem with my Samsung TV connecting to my laptop via HDMI and found the solution by going to the TV Menu > Picture > Screen Adjustment > chose "screen fit" that fixed it. There you ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS - Tower Cannot Connect to New TV
There is a high probability that this is an EDID issue. Tower and new tv find no agreement on the resolution to use. I would try to save the Edid information of the old tv and force the tower to use ...
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How can i connect ubuntu 17.10 to my LG Smart TV
From your comments, it sounds like you're using Miracast under Windows, the successor being Miraclecast. I'd recommend downloading and installing the Miraclecast project. The quick procedure would be ...
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How do I adjust display size, not resolution?
See Nemo's answer https://askubuntu.com/a/413132/511681 It fixed that problem on my TV as hdmi monitor. The same problem happens with all the various recent Ubuntu's I have tried with this TV. I don't ...
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Freetuxtv crashing
I have had the same issue on Ubuntu 16.04 with xfce-desktop. I did some scouring on the net and found a ppa that worked great for me and got freetuxtv working. Keep in mind it is the unstable ...
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Screencast to a TV through a Roku
Check out MiracleCast.
This might be what you're looking for. It projects your screen onto TV's using Miracast over WiFi.
https://github.com/albfan/miraclecast
https://launchpad.net/~thopiekar/+...
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How to set screen borders for HDMI output
For LG TV's (webOS 4, Software Version 05.30.10)
All Settings > Picture > Aspect Ratio Settings > Just Scan > On
Although you might experience performance issues when running on a 4K ...
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How to make kodi as default media player
Kodi does not seem to be build for launching videos from the outside, but it is possible
As from the terminal you can launch a video by running
kodi /path/to/video
How to make it the default player ...
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How to disable a Laptop's Native Monitor via Command Line - Ubuntu 18.04
You can use xrandr to do that.
Without argument it gives you something like that:
Screen 0: minimum 1 x 1, current 3840 x 975, maximum 8192 x 8192
Virtual1 connected primary 1920x929+0+0 (normal left ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS - Tower Cannot Connect to New TV
Alright, so here is a strange story that I feel confirms oscar1919 's answer (documenting here just for additional detail too long for a comment):
On a hunch, I plugged in both TVs (using the old &...
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How to connect over Bluetooth an LG C2 TV with Ubuntu (audio)?
We can set the device class manually:
Paste the following into /etc/systemd/system/bluetooth-class-askubuntu-1504191-1004020.service :
[Unit]
Description=Set Bluetooth device class to be a speaker
...
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Help needed for finding the script for moving and naming tv folders to tv folders compatible with emby
I don't know what "emby" is, but in Bash, ...
Something like this:
ubuntu@Lenovo:~/TV$ tree
.
├── Altered.Carbon.S01E05.The.Wrong.Man.1080p.DDP5.1.x264
│ ├── file.info
│ ├── file.mp4
│ ...
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Basic DLNA Server; like - cough - on W10
As I understand your post you are looking for 2 things.
A lightweight server : MiniDLNA (I use this and it is discovered by clients on multiple devices)
A client - to direct file to a renderer. A ...
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Automatically reduce resolution to that of the smallest monitor upon connecting new monitor?
Change resolution on signal
With the help of Gdk, we can act on several signals, a.o. on connecting/disconnecting monitors. If we connect both the monitor-added and monitor-removed -signal (Gdk....
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Rygel won't share .mpg files to my Hisense TV
I think it's unlikely that anyone will answer, so I will post my eventual solution, such that it is, in case it helps someone else in the future. Firstly, something I learned that wasn't relevant in ...
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When I connect my TV to my laptop via HDMI, the TV is not detected until I try to change my background or run xrandr
It turns out I had a bad cable. I had thought I tried another cable but I have now found a good cable. I would atrribute this problem to what is commonly called "finger trouble".
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Drivers for LG 32LK 330 UB TV?
Do I need a driver for it?
No. You need a driver for the HDMI port. That is not one where you can switch drivers (same as with USB and VGA).
Settings on the TV to consider:
Resolution of the TV is ...
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User logged out when TV is turned off and on again
Issue traced to gdm. Installing lightdm seems to fix.
sudo apt-get install lightdm
Suggestion found in this bug report[1]
[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mutter/+bug/1714908
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How can I install a Hauppauge WinTV HVR1110 card in Ubuntu 16.04?
I figured this out, mostly based on the previous link to the LinuxTV page but with a few modified steps.
Note: This is specifically for the HVR-1110 card - but it can probably apply to other similar ...
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xrandr: S-Video TV display problems
S-Video/composite is very old, back from the time when I was a kid and dinosaurs still roamed the Earth and the S-Video hardware just doesn't support this resolution.
It's great to convert VCR tapes ...
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How do I adjust display size, not resolution?
I have a similar question with 16.04 with nvidia based graphic card to a Panasonic 26" TV,detected as an 32" if connected HDMI.
I could solve the Output Problem, i can see the hole screen with the "...
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How to set screen borders for HDMI output
Switch Your TV-settings to the 4:3 format. Now You see two black blocks left and right beside the desktop margins. If a third of ubuntu's control panel is cut off now, You can be sure of that the ...
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How to set screen borders for HDMI output
Samsung TV:
Tools -> Image Size (change from 16:9 to adjust screen).
If you have another TV or monitor you just search for your model in google/youtube with overscan or zoom image mode
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