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What package to install to play midi files in Ubuntu 16.04?

Open the terminal and enter: sudo apt install timidity timidity-interfaces-extra Enter your password, another prompt may appear type, Y and hit enter. Go to your menu, you should now have an ...
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What package to install to play midi files in Ubuntu 16.04?

VLC media player can do that for you given that the plugin for midi is installed. sudo apt install vlc vlc-plugin-fluidsynth After that you can play your midi library with VLC without installing ...
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Ubuntu (GNOME) default video player name

This isn’t obvious, but the GNOME Videos applications is also known as Totem, and the corresponding package is totem: ubuntu-bug totem To find this out, the most reliable way, based on an ...
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How can I change playback speed of mpv video player?

See the manual (or man mpv): Keyboard Control ... [ and ]        Decrease/increase current playback speed by 10%. { and }        Halve/double current playback speed. BACKSPACE        Reset playback ...
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How to play this file?

I had the exact same problem. This answer here solved the problem. I followed the last one , i.e, Install vlc with sudo apt-get install vlc and then install the required plugins to play *.mkv files ...
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How can I play encrypted DVD movies?

Ubuntu 20.10 and later In Ubuntu 20.10 and later DVD-Video playing library - installer (libdvd-pkg) can be quickly and easily installed from the default Ubuntu repositories. Open the terminal and type:...
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How do I add myself to the video group after installing AMDGPU-PRO driver?

Just to sum up with some of the great information from steeldriver in the comments; Install drivers following AMD's instructions Copy sudo usermod -a -G video $LOGNAME into a terminal Type groups. ...
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Displaying two subtitle tracks simultaneously

mpv I think that the best approach is with mpv (available via sudo apt install mpv). I'm going to assume that all the subtitles are either built-in (as specified in the question) or in a separate, ...
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What package to install to play midi files in Ubuntu 16.04?

The gstreamer method of playing MIDI is to use the sound card's sequencer to do so. However, many sound cards do not necessarily have an instrument for playing MIDI, these days. Instead, you will need ...
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How to change font style and size of subtitles in Celluloid?

Celluloid has no point-and-click option in the settings to change the styling of subtitles (as of yet, maybe), but since it is a frontend for mpv, it can use mpv (command line) options, including ...
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How can I get the full screen space in a video?

I had the same problem - it might have to do with the video card acceleration. Go to Tools, Preferences and then Video. Uncheck the box about accelerated video output, under Display.
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What package to install to play midi files in Ubuntu 16.04?

I needed proper sound fonts. sudo apt install fluid-soundfont-gm fluid-soundfont-gs
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Is there an image and video viewer like on smart phones in Ubuntu?

You can use gThumb. gThumb can view images and play videos directly. Install it with the command sudo apt install gthumb Take a look at its project page https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/gthumb
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Facebook videos not playing on Mozilla (but working on Youtube) - 16.04

Installing ubuntu restricted extras solved this problem for me sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
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Prevent mpv's progress bar from covering video

The option you are looking for is boxvideo, which is available for mpv 0.31 and above (see relevant git commit). Just add: boxvideo=yes in your ~/.config/mpv/script-opts/osc.conf and your video ...
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VLC is not working on Ubuntu 22.04

Have you tried installing VLC from the default repository by just using the following command: sudo apt install vlc You can also try installing VLC using flatpak: sudo apt install flatpak sudo ...
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How to make video go forwards and backwards using the mouse scroll wheel in Celluloid video player?

Here is how to use a mpv-style scroll gesture for celluloid: Paste the following into ~/.config/celluloid/input.conf: WHEEL_UP seek -1 WHEEL_DOWN seek 1 Open Celluloid's Preferences: Pick that file ...
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Unable to locate package vlc-plugin-libde265

vlc-plugin-libde265 is not available in the Ubuntu repositories as can be seen at http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=all&searchon=names&keywords=vlc-plugin-libde265. To install it, you ...
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Problems playing videos

If seeing these symptoms with Totem the 1st. thing to check is whether gstreamer1.0-vaapi package is installed. If so removing it can take care of the problem. This command will suffice to check & ...
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VLC is not working on Ubuntu 22.04

Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS sudo rm /var/cache/fontconfig/* rm ~/.cache/fontconfig/* fc-cache -r See the original post
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Displaying two subtitle tracks simultaneously

The easiest option that "simply works", out of the box (at least, for me) is SMPlayer. In context menu, select Subtitles -> Primary and Secondary tracks:
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Any video player that can show two subtitles at a time?

Smplayer is GUI for the famous mplayer, the engine behind many players. It's now easy with stock Smplayer to display two subtitles. Just select your 2nd subtitle as a Secondary track and the player ...
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No Video Playback in Web (Epiphany), Videos (Totem)and Gthumb

To add a little more detail i was geting audio but no image just a green screen in all the named apps. This solved it: sudo apt purge gstreamer1.0-vaapi
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How do I watch a Youtube in Picture-in-Picture (PIP) mode?

Three options: VLC Method Open VLC Right click > enable Minimal Mode Right click titlebar in Unity > Always on Top (Unity has an option for all workspaces) "Play Network Stream" (Ctrl-N) and pasting ...
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My Opera can't play videos

Install ffmpeg, which will install the missing shared library libffmpeg.so: sudo apt install ffmpeg Sorry for this late answer, I had only just realised my suggestion which I was not 100% certain ...
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How can I turn off subtitles in Totem?

Setting them to size 1 is not a great solution, but setting them to size zero works! You have to do it via gsettings though, the GUI will not allow size zero. Use the following command: gsettings set ...
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How can I scrub through a video for saving screengrabs frame by frame?

SMPlayer ( sudo apt install smplayer ) lets you go forward and back frame-by-frame with the . (dot) and , (comma) keys. Make sure you have "mpv" selected as the "Multimedia engine". It's under ...
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error playing video in ubuntu 16.04

For this specific type you can install either gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad or gstreamer1.0-libav Both will enable h.264 & aac decoding. Probably best in long run to just install both. sudo apt ...
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Play my favorite games of PalyStation, Xbox,SEGA and Pc on Ubuntu

Well Lakka OS is an emulator. They try to emulate games as if they were the original console. But all emulators are not the same and all have bugs and glitches that might or mightn't be on the console....
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Facebook videos not playing on Mozilla (but working on Youtube) - 16.04

I had the same problem. I fix it like this: sudo apt-get install adobe-flashplugin If that's already installed, try to upgrade it: sudo apt-get upgrade adobe-flashplugin
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