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Why is Hulu video streaming quality poor on Ubuntu 22.04?
I found the following: Why is my Hulu such bad quality?
Streaming in 720p depends on the configuration of the device you are
using. Contractual restrictions and digital rights management policies
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HBONOW on Ubuntu 16.04LTS
Using Pipelight worked beautifully for me. It only runs in Firefox, though.
Installing Pipelight
Open up the old terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy and paste the following commands. To paste into the ...
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Use webcam from laptop on desktop pc
Asuming both machines are connected in a network and the PC can reach the laptop's IP. Please follow these steps:
On the laptop (with the webcam)
Install v4l-utils and ffmpeg by running:
sudo apt ...
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Cannot play files over samba share on MATE 15.04
A year later... I just discovered that VLC does not use whatever connection the desktop supplies, whether it's Gnome or KDE.
It creates its own using credentials defined in the settings:
Tools > ...
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How can I choose a background for Microsoft Teams
As of January 2022, the Teams Background Effects (change/blur) works in Microsoft Edge for Linux. I have it running on Ubuntu 20.04.
Here's what it looks like (option highlighted in red):
Create ...
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How can I choose a background for Microsoft Teams
The feature is currently absent for Linux systems. According to Change your background for a Teams meeting - Office Support:
For now, Linux users aren't able to use this feature.
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Install and run Zoom Client inside a sandbox
Zoom is available as a Snap: snap install zoom-client
Snaps are confined to their own filesystem using squashfs loop mounts and AppArmor rules. However, Zoom needs routine access to quite a lot of ...
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Vimeo video not playing in firefox
I circumvented the problem by changing the setting
media.autoplay.enabled to true
(in url: about:config)
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Use webcam from laptop on desktop pc
So you want to borrow the camera for another machine. May be late but this question seems to have solution.
The usual issue I see, most conference/chat apps does only support local camera devices (no ...
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Watching Amazon Prime video HD on ubuntu 20.04
According to this forum, the following solution might work:
1) Install winehq-staging
2) Install Edge-dev: see this
3) Run Edge:
wine 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge Dev\Application\msedge....
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Use webcam from laptop on desktop pc
If I understand correctly, you mean to have a video device on one computer getting the input from a physical device on another.
Even if I do not have here the resources to test it, I guess it is ...
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How to stream desktop and audio with ffmpeg in youtube
1. Choose audio
You can use pavucontrol to choose which audio source ffmpeg will record, such as "desktop" or microphone. This is explained in Capturing ONLY desktop audio with ffmpeg.
2. Encode
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Is it possible to stream one's desktop to Youtube live event?
A good tool to use is Open Broadcasting Software, it is free and open source and has an easy install for Ubuntu here.
in OBS
settings > streaming has a place to put the streaming key and then you add ...
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Netflix Error Code F7355
THE ISSUE
Ubuntu's minimal installation (20.04 and previous versions) doesn't come with one or some codecs required for streaming Netflix. It's not an issue with the web browser (Firefox, Chromium, ...
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How can I view my Wyze Camera live video stream on Linux Ubuntu?
Here are 3 options I came up with. If you can find a better Android emulator for Ubuntu, however, please do post another answer below and/or on my follow-up question here: Which Android emulators/...
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VLC is lagging when playing HD videos over my home network
bit late but someone else will have the same problem as i'm using an old Dell 780 core2 quad @3000, and there are loads on the market at the moment
had the same problem with vlc playing off a nas
my ...
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Unable to get HAL working
The short answer is : the DRM required by 40D to prevent you skipping their adverts is not compatible with linux because it has not be implemented.
I haven't managed to get 40D to work on linux for ...
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Install Popcorn-Time on Ubuntu 14.04
The PPA does not work, so I downloaded the x64 .tar.xz. 32bit version here.
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HBONOW on Ubuntu 16.04LTS
Pipelight solution does not work at the moment, but Firefox with Flash on PlayOnLinux does.
Install and run PlayOnLinux
sudo apt install playonlinux
playonlinux
Click Install and search for ...
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YouTube videos are not working in Ubuntu 18.04
Your flashplayer might be the problem although chrome comes pre-installed with flash player.
Try reinstalling flash plugin by ,
sudo apt-get install --reinstall flashplugin-installer.
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youtube video is choppy, but audio plays fine
Choppy video when the audio is fine is frequently a problem of the desktop using a generic video driver that doesn't include any kind of acceleration for video playback or desktop compositing.
There ...
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Is it possible to get HD quality in Zoom videoconference client on ubuntu?
Try v4l2loopback to redirect your webcam's feed to a virtual webcam.
If you're lucky, Zoom will properly read from that virtual webcam
Assuming your webcam is at /dev/video0, we'll create a virtual ...
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Use webcam from laptop on desktop pc
vlc
Using vlc is one way to achieve this goal.
Step 1 - setup
To install VLC on Debian, Ubuntu or Linux Mint:
$ sudo apt-get install vlc
To install VLC on Fedora, first enable RPM Fusion's free ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 screen always freezes with Google Meets
I had a similar problem with Ubuntu 18.04 and Mozilla Firefox. When I tried to share screen my computer got freezed while allowing access to window. I use Dark Reader add-on, and the problem somehow ...
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Use webcam from laptop on desktop pc
You could try to use DroidCam. I do not have PC with laptop in the one place, so I've just tested it on Android phone and Ubuntu 19.10. There's Wifi Server option present you could try in your case.
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Installing zoom-client Snap
Try zoom thru flat, https://flathub.org/apps/details/us.zoom.Zoom, this one worked for me.
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Installing zoom-client Snap
sorry, this is caused by the nvidia-4XX drivers, the issue is tracked at:
https://github.com/ogra1/zoom-snap/issues/2
EDIT: though your error looks slightly different, could you post the teminal log ...
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Up-to-date method to stream to Ubuntu from Terminal
You can't just put one command on multiple lines. You get errors like this if you do:
./start_stream.sh: line 4: -c:v: command not found
./start_stream.sh: line 5: -pix_fmt: command not found
You ...
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Up-to-date method to stream to Ubuntu from Terminal
Try this:
ffmpeg -f x11grab -video_size 1280x720 -framerate 60 -i :0.0 -f pulse -i default \
-c:v libx264 -preset fast -b:v 4500k -bufsize 9000k -maxrate 5000k -g 120 \
-pix_fmt yuv420p -c:a aac -...
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Loading online videos even with flash / pepper [Ubuntu 16]
Check out Adobe's flash player download page. Downloads are now available for Firefox and Chrome (although Chrome should have this built in) for the most recent versions of the Adobe flash player.
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