Questions tagged [video]
Questions related to video playback and recording in Ubuntu. For questions about video cards, use "graphics".
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Video editing software options? [closed]
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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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 change proprietary video driver using the command line?
My laptop computer has a Nvidia video card and runs Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64-bit. During an upgrade yesterday it seemed as a new Nvidia driver version 304 (if I remember correct) was installed. After ...
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What's video converters are available for Ubuntu? [closed]
I need a good video converter application that can convert from/to many video formats. On Windows I found Format Factory to be good. I would like its equivalent or something better on Ubuntu.
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No sound on HDMI with Radeon driver
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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How do I stop the screensaver from turning on when watching videos online? [duplicate]
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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How to select video quality from youtube-dl?
I have installed youtube-dl in my 14.04.
I can download video by following command,
$ youtube-dl [youtube-link]
But I want to know how to select available pixel quality of youtube video(i.e 1080p, ...
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How to prevent the screen lock while watching video (Netflix, Youtube, Amazon Prime) in Ubuntu 17.10
In earlier Ubuntu versions like 16.04 and 17.04 while watching YouTube videos in full-screen mode, the screen would not get locked automatically.
In Ubuntu 17.10 while watching videos in browser, ...
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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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Fake a webcam using a video loopback device?
I want to use a looped video clip as my webcam source in a Google+ Hangout. I installed v4l2loopback and created a video loopback device. But I haven't figured out how to write the video frames to the ...
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UBUNTU 14.04 cheese booth not detect webcam
Cheese Booth shows an error:
There was an error playing video from the webcam
I test if webcam works fine or not by opening google hangout, its works fine.
Please tell, what is the issue in ...
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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 video via ...
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How to replace avconv with (the real) ffmpeg and have it work right?
UPDATE (original text preserved below)
With the real ffmpeg about to return (in 15.04), Jon Severinsson's PPA no longer working (for ffmpeg), and both avconv-ffmpeg (now called "libav") and the real ...
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How to check video memory size?
Is there a way to check the size of the video memory? Specifically, is there one that works accurately for both integrated GPU's as well as PCI/AGP graphics cards?
Many integrated GPU's have ...
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After installing Ubuntu 22.04, the default video player is unable to play any videos
The default video player (Totem) is unable to play videos after installing Ubuntu 22.04. I tried opening an MP4 file and I get the error (also shown in the screenshot):
An error occured
The specified ...
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Anything better than Cheese for video capture?
I need to record some video from my webcam, and while Cheese works, it lacks settings, and only outputs the webm format that is full of stutters, etc.
Can't seem to find any alternative...
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What software can join videos?
What's the best & easiest GUI software that can join a video that I have downloaded in several parts?
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Download YouTube videos from start of batch to end of batch that is part of a playlist
A Youtube video can be watched standalone or it could be a part of a playlist.
Example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbsNiOkm0BU and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbsNiOkm0BU&index=141&...
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Can't play DVDs through either VLC, Videos, or Kaffeine
Running this through an external DVD drive. Videos app says DVD source is required to play the file, but is not installed. Hitting play in VLC activates the disc (you can hear it start up in the drive)...
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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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How do I reinstall the default (non-proprietary) display drivers?
I, I've installed Ubuntu 11.10 on my dual screen PC and everything worked flawlessly.
Then they asked me about proprietary drivers: ATI.
I said "ok install them".
Now it doesn't work on my dual ...
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HDMI Audio Issue Ubuntu 22.04
I just upgraded to Ubuntu 22.04 from 21.10 today. After upgrade, HDMI Audio setting is not playing any sound through TV Speakers. Video playback on Plex is also broken, stopping and starting and very ...
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Video not playing in web browser with Bluetooth headphones connected. How can I fix this?
I have an Emby media server running on Ubuntu 16.04 on a home server.
I like to watch video on my laptop, running Ubuntu 16.10. Playback works as expected but when I try to watch with my Bluetooth ...
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Loud beep sound in Acer c731 Chromebook (RELM) while playing video: sof-audio-acpi-intel-byt 808622A8:00: error
I was watching a video online, and suddenly my computer started playing a high frequency noise. The video did not pause, but the sound of the video was not audible at all. The sound stopped a while ...
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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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Playing Videos in Firefox
I use Ubuntu 18.04 and Firefox 60.0 (linux beginner!)
I just installed the flash player, but the only videos that are displayed in my browser are the ones on youtube.
facebook and any other streaming-...
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Thumbnails not showing in video in Ubuntu 18.04
I have Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and I've manually installed Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
Everything looks fine except video thumbnails.
How to solve this?
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Problem playing hotstar videos
I have Ubuntu 16.04 LTS installed on my PC. I have a problem playing Hotstar videos on google chrome. Version of google chrome: 51.0.2704.63 (64-bit). All other videos of youtube are playing normally ...
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How to install h.264 decoder?
I tried playing videos in movie player but only the audio could be heard.
I tried playing the video with dragon player but here also only the audio could be heard.
A message box appeared showing the ...
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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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How do I download with youtube-dl to get video title as filename?
How the current file has been downloaded to display the original title?
When i download always like P9pzm5b6Fxx.mp4, when the title is Tigerking.
How do I set it so that it is downloaded as tigerking....
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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 ...
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VLC crash on Ubuntu 17.10 Screen Freezes
2days ago I upgraded my Ubuntu from 17.04 to 17.10, all the process went fine and the upgrade was successful. But after some few hours I played a .mp4 video with vlc players the video plays on full ...
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Use video file as a screensaver?
I want to make my video to be a screensaver.
Is there any software to make it?
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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 ...
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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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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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How do I play .swf files?
Does anyone know what libraries I have to install to play .swf files?
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Screen sharing with Wayland
How is the status of screen sharing on Wayland? Recently this has become an essential topic for people who telecommute.
I am trying to share my screen on Google Chrome 88 with WebRTC and I run GNOME 3....
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Best Professional Video editor for Linux equivalent to Sony Vegas Pro? [closed]
I have recently moved onto Linux especially Ubuntu, and I'm a video freak, I love editing videos for my youtube channel, Vimeo, Plex, etc and since I'm new to this Open Source World, I cannot decide ...
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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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Fullscreen Chrome video causes Ubuntu to crash [duplicate]
Any time I try to watch a flash (or maybe HTML5) video in chrome, when I fullscreen it, Ubuntu freezes, goes black, and then my monitor says "no signal." This only happens on the second or third time ...
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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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Videos hang / freeze for a few seconds on Ubuntu 18.04
Since the update to 18.04 every YouTube video and also locally played videos hang for a few seconds.
This can be temporarily "solved" by moving the mouse, but then it freezes again as the audio ...
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In youtube, There are just 360p and 720p options .(no 240p,480p and 1080p)
A couple of days before, everything is working perfectly good. But After last Ubuntu update -also flash player has updated- (I just think that was occurred after update but maybe not) I can not watch ...
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ffmpeg resize "could not find codec parameters"
I'm a newbee to ubuntu and need your help: (32bit ubuntu 12.10) my command:
ffmpeg -i ../output_images/particles%04d.png -r 30 -b 30000k final_movie.avi
works for my 800x800 *.png pictures properly, ...
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Mouse lag after upgrading to Ubuntu 14.04
I was running Ubuntu 13.10 with no issues and decided to upgrade to Ubuntu 14.04 recently. Since I've upgraded I've noticed that my mouse starts to lag after I play a movie via xbmc or a video on ...
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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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60fps 4k video low performance
My laptop runs Ubuntu 16.04 and has the following specs:
SSD 256
i5 7200u
8 gb RAM
nvidia Nvidia GeForce GTX 950M
So ... it properly plays 30fps 4k video on YouTube, but it freezes when I try to ...
