Questions tagged [video-streaming]

Delivering live video over the Internet, that is constantly received by and presented to an end-user while being delivered by a provider.

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How can I install pipelight-multi on Ubuntu 17.04 to steam Silverlight videos?

I have tried the following in order to install pipelight-multi so I can watch videos powered by Microsoft Silverlight (e.g HBO Now): sudo apt-get install wine-staging sudo add-apt-repository ppa:...
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How to stream a local video file over Internet using avconv/avserver?

As FFmpeg is going to be dropped from Ubuntu, it will be important to know how to broadcast videos over Intrnet using avconv. An official guide is available, but it doesn't give much information how ...
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How to remove video fisheye effect with low overhead

I am a "newbie" and currently using an RTSP stream on a PI4 with a POE security camera that has a wide-angle lens on it. It is my understanding that this effect can be removed via a MATLAB ...
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perfrormance dip when playing youtube on surface go 2

I've installed Ubuntu 23.10 GNOME on my Surface Go 2 because Windows 11 is way too slow. I only use it to watch youtube and occasionally stream simple games from my main desktop with parsec. it worked ...
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Watching Amazon Prime video HD on ubuntu 20.04

I think it has been known for a good while that Amazon Prime Video is SD only on system running anything other than Windows and MAC: https://www.primevideo.com/help?nodeId=GUX9FYHU5D8LC9EJ Is there a ...
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How do I kill cvlc while watching a stream?

I am watching a stream by using the command cvlc v4l2:///dev/video0 on an Ubuntu device with a webcam. How do I exit? I've tried Ctrl+C, q, :q, etc, and the stream does not quit. Currently I've just ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 screen always freezes with Google Meets

Every single time I am on a meeting on Google Meets, my Ubuntu crashes. The sound and mouse keep working, but the screen freezes. I use Opera Web Browser, and in addition to the browser with Google ...
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Problem with YouTube videos and audio

I recently switched from Windows to Linux. I am using Google Chrome Browser. When I play video on YouTube there is a glitch in the video like broken texture and also a problem with the audio of the ...
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Twitch streaming via Linux

I'm currently working on a small project. 3 colleagues and I want to stream separately on Twitch, but we also want to combine all 4 streams (the way we stream to Twitch) into one stream. It should ...
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Use webcam from laptop on desktop pc

I want to use the webcam on my laptop as video device on my pc to use it for video conferencing etc. So I not just want to stream the video. I actually want to "stream" the entire device over network....
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Creating a dummy v4l2 capture device without using 'v4l2loopback'

Can i create a dummy v4l2 video device just like done by sudo modprobe v4l2loopback without using v4l2loopback via command line.I don,t want to use v4l2loopback because it is not able to call a ...
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Install and run Zoom Client inside a sandbox

With COVID-19 pandemic there was a boom of video conferencing. Although there are good free and open source alternatives like Jitsi (with e2ee coming soon), Zoom became popular. Is not a secret that ...
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Webcams (both integrated and external) are laggy (and have no virtual background support) in Zoom 5.8.0 on Ubuntu 22.04.2

I bought a Lenovo ThinkPad-E15-Gen-2 this summer and installed Ubuntu 20.04.3 (dual-boot alongside Win 10). I've been experiencing many different problems in Ubuntu, this being one of them. Google ...
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Video card compatible with the latest version of Ubuntu Studio

Is there a list of video cards compatible with the latest version of Ubuntu Studio? I want to upgrade my computer with a brand new video card.
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Why is Hulu video streaming quality poor on Ubuntu 22.04?

Poor quality streaming seems to be exclusive to Hulu as the Netflix stream is clearly HD quality. Hulu streaming quality is blocky and pixelated. The stream was tested in the Firefox browser with DRM ...
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YouTube videos are not working in Ubuntu 18.04

I recently installed Ubuntu 18.04 and it is working fine until I opened YouTube. I used both Chrome and Firefox but my YouTube is not working at all. Could anyone help me with their suggestions?
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How to download AES 128 encrypted HLS Stream?

I want to download AES 128 encrypted HLS stream into a mp4 on Ubuntu 20.04. I have the m3u8 file but it has URI for key as k/timestamp. I have the timestamp file but it shows bizarre text when opened ...
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How can I view my Wyze Camera live video stream on Linux Ubuntu?

How can I view my Wyze Camera live video stream on Linux Ubuntu? I have the Wyze Cam V3. Constraints: I really don't want to lose the ability to view the video feed from the app on my phone when I ...
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Videos will not play in any browser from any source, Ubuntu 18.04

I have a fairly fresh install of Ubuntu 18.04 Desktop, And a few days ago videos stopped playing in any browser. I tried Chrome and Chromium and Firefox, I tried YouTube and Vimeo and Udemy videos. ...
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Webrtc H.264 High profile doesn't want to play in browser

I'm having issue with viewing webrtc video in browser when profile is High(profile 640028), baseline (profile 42802a) playback is OK. SDP is totally fine - if I connect camera with baseline I can see ...
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Randomly freeze when play video with sound

When I play video with sound on, computer often turn to freeze immediately, but if i play video without sound, everything when normal. I'm using NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650, ram 8gb, Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-...
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DVB Stream analysis program for Ubuntu?

I have DekTec DTU-238 Stream analysis probe for analysis of DVB streams (NAT, PAT, EIT, CAT tables analysis). (https://www.dektec.com/products/USB/DTU-238/) Since recently I've used provided by ...
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Adjusting brightness and contrast levels on streaming media

I wonder if it is possible to adjust brightness and contrast levels within a streaming video on Ubuntu.
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How can I choose a background for Microsoft Teams

For meetings, I need to change the background to a particular image. I could not see the "Show background effects" feature in my ubuntu 18.04. How can we add a virtual background?
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Desktop sharing Ubuntu 21.04 - same network

How can I share my desktop's monitor to another laptop on the same network? (For watching video stream.) There used to be a thing called "desktop sharing" but it isn't coming up in my ...
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Alternatives media servers instead of Plex Media Server

I am running a Plex Media Server and I have a major issue with it not seeing all my media. I also have a second server that uses Greyhole and I mounted that "Drive" that has some media on it ...
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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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limit data usage of discord

As far as my research took me, there is no way to set discord to manually reduce video quality. It can reduce it, but only if your bandwidth is poor. If your bandwidth is good, but the data plan is ...
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How can I test web conferencing issues?

I'm experiencing problems with web conferencing softwares in my Ubuntu 21.04 installation (Plasma DE). Everything is working, such as video streaming services (Youtube, Vimeo, and so on) except the ...
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I have red pixels on the screen with my webcam on zoom app. in Ubuntu 20.04

Screen with Red Pixels in Zoom client I have a few (70 or 100) red pixels that spread all over the screen when I operate my webcam on Zoom client app. in Ubuntu 20.04 but not on Cheese/Skype/mjpg-...
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Is it possible to combine two movie files into one, interleaved like a zipper using ffmpeg?

imagine you have two movie clips, each one has the same fps and geometry and total number of pics,now take the first pic of the first clip and place the first pic of the second clip after it, than ...
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Up-to-date method to stream to Ubuntu from Terminal

I would like to stream from Ubuntu to Twitch in a lightweight manner from Terminal. I have tried https://gist.github.com/brodul/3178114 however I get a green screen when I go to my Twitch stream. ...
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How to stream a video file or do mirroring from Ubuntu to your TV?

On Windows, I can use airparrot to stream everywhere, on apple tv devices, and on smart tv devices. I can do mirroring and file streaming, I believe Windows 10 supports a built-in screen mirroring and ...
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Microsoft teams videos are always redirected to microsoft stream

I have just installed microsoft Teams on my ubuntu laptop. I have also another computer (which has windows) with Teams installed, in this way I can make a comparison. Unfortunately when I click on ...
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Does a virtual whiteboard that offers real time editing exist for ubuntu?

I'd like to give a presentation to several people using skype. Now....the thing is that I want them to look at a document that I previously created and give me real time answers to my questions. Is it ...
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Is there a way to send usb camera stream through a color filter before it gets to Zoom or similar?

Pretty much I wanted to see if there was a way to adjust color settings before it gets to a streaming app. Thanks!!
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Cannot play YouTube "Live" vidoes with Firefox 79.0 (64-bit)

I cannot play YouTube "Live" vidoes with Firefox 79.0 (64-bit) on Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS. I tried to fix the issue by enabling "Play DRM controlled content" in Firefox settings and ...
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Lenovo P14s slow despite most recent driver

as the title says, I'm having trouble getting Ubuntu running with acceptable performance (really any Linux distribution I tried, but Ubunutu is especially slow). The main problem I is everything I do ...
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Eurosport Player on Linux?

I tried a few years ago with no success. Eurosport player did NOT support Linux machines. Lately I've heard different stories (they're using HTML5 for example, which should be OK with Linux). I don't ...
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Unable to get video via uvc_gadget to the host pc

I am trying to setup a raspberry pi board as a piping device which could receive video from a camera or any other source and pipe it to the host pc. I am following the tutorial mentioned here https://...
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Netflix Error Code F7355

I have Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fosa) minimal installation on my machine. I can't stream Netflix videos. It returns Error Code F7355. Same problem happens with Firefox and Chromium. DRM is activated by ...
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Cannot load M3U8: No levels to play

i'm not able to watch some streaming channels anymore. Here's the link I only get this message: Cannot load M3U8: No levels to play, both on Chrome (54.0.2840.100 64-bit) and Firefox (53.0 64-bit), ...
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Use image as video stream?

I want to use an image as a video stream source in flashplayer, for websites like ustream. Preferably something light on memory/cpu. From what I've read, xawtv might be able to create a fake ...
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Live videoediting for Google Hangout

I need to edit the video recorded by my webcam "on the fly" and to stream it to a Google Hangouts call. What I want to do is to remove the background of the video (and possibly substitute it ...
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Is it possible to get HD quality in Zoom videoconference client on ubuntu?

I tried installing and running the latest Zoom client on 3 different computers running Ubuntu 20.04 with different speeds and specs: all of them display my own image in low, zoomed-in, grainy ...
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How to play hd, 1080p prime content in brave or firefox in ubuntu 20.04?

I have enabled the all the three plugins in firefox as drm, open264 and shockwave flash, but I cannot play hd, fullhd in amazon prime. For the brave browser, I couldn't find any plugin options. I have ...
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Installing zoom-client Snap

I need to use Zoom video conferencing (https://zoom.us). While they offer a DEB package which works, this is exactly the type of application I'd prefer to run as a Snap. There is a Snap available (...
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Video LAG on Ubuntu 20.04 / Lubuntu 20.04 AMD Athlon 64 3200+ @ 2GHz

I'm a noob to Ubuntu. and would appreciate some help I have this old machine that had XP, it was useless, and figured I'd install a light weight OS Lubuntu was the Idea. however I continued to install ...
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Problem in downloading videos using youtube-dl

How can I download videos from "https://zeroinfy.in/" using youtube-dl? I had tried, but not succeed and searched, but I did not find a solution. In the Android app for this academy, videos ...
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Video calling (grandparents)

I need an extremely simple solution for video calling. I'm planning to use an old laptop with webcam. My goal is that my grandparents only need to turn on the machine and it would automatically start ...