Questions tagged [video]
Questions related to video playback and recording in Ubuntu. For questions about video cards, use "graphics".
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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 simply convert video files (i.e.: MKV to MP4)? [duplicate]
I simply want to convert files, any format to any format (at the moment, I need to convert MKV to MP4-h264), without losing quality. I don't want to resize (scale) the video, I don't want to change ...
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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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Extract part of a video with a one-line command
If I have a video, normally avi, but could be any, and I want to create another one in the same format but just a part, the position i seconds to f seconds into the video, what is the one-line command ...
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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 to merge multiple (more than two) videos on Ubuntu?
I want to merge videos in batch size of twenty (20) each. I'm running a Linux machine. The videos are in mp4 format and moderate quality. Some even have the audio stream missing. So far I've tried ...
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How to find frames per second of any video file?
Is there any simple way to find the fps of a video in ubuntu? In windows I use Gspot to find out all the information about a video file. But in ubuntu I find it very difficult to find out this basic ...
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How to download youtube videos as a best quality audio mp3 using youtube-dl [duplicate]
I want to download YouTube videos as mp3 files in its best quality. The below code helps to download youtube videos as m4a but not us mp3
youtube-dl -f bestaudio --audio-quality 0 --audio-format mp3 ...
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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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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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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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How do I convert .ts files into something useful?
I have a file that ends in .ts, which according to wikipedia is an MPEG2 file. I've never run into a file like this so I want it want the file to be in a more common format/container to use on ...
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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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Splitting an MP4 file
What is the fastest and least resource consuming method for splitting an MP4 file?
I tried ffmpeg but got an error:
$ ffmpeg -vcodec copy -ss 0 -t 00:10:00 -i /home/asafche/Videos/myVideos/MAH00124....
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How to convert .ts file into a mainstream format losslessly?
I have a file that ends in .ts (e.g., here are the first 10 MB). I would like to convert it to a more main stream format (e.g., mp4, MPEG2-PS...), in a lossless way if possible (i.e., remuxing).
I ...
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Firefox not playing videos on Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS
My newly deployed Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS has already installed Firefox 80, but most videos in the web are not playable. One codec complains "No video formats available", while the other, for ...
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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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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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Black screen when playing a movie in VLC player, just the sound is enabled
When I move the VLC player window, I can see the video but when I stop moving it, then it gets back to black.
This happens not only in VLC but with my webcam too, when I use camorama webcam.
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How do you install avconv on Ubuntu Server 13.04?
I've searched and searched, but I can't find anything, besides compiling it, which gives me an error about ASM.
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How can I extract audio track from video file and save it as MP3? [duplicate]
What is the easiest way to extract an audio track from a video file and save it as an MP3 file?
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How do I add and/or keep subtitles when converting video?
I have a MKV video I want to convert to MP4, but every which way I try and convert it (Handbrake, WinFF, FFmpeg, MEncoder,...) I lose the video's subtitles. How can I convert the video, keeping the ...
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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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Fastest way to convert videos (batch or single)?
I know there are a lot of questions about video encoders around here, but my question is more about workflow/efficiency.
For my day job, I need to convert videos, frequently, from many random formats ...
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youtube-dl from git no longer available
Right now I would download a small video from walkthroug from a game. so I started with
alex@Guilmon:~/Videos$ sudo youtube-dl -U
ERROR: can't find the current version. Please try again later.
alex@...
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ASCII animations that are viewed in the command-line? [closed]
I like ASCII animations and want to view them through a terminal window.
What famous Linux programs and commands are suitable here to display ASCII animations or view videos in a terminal screen?
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How to find out what codec is being used in a video
How can i see what codec was used in a video (Audio/Video) and extra information about what to use to reproduce the same compression/quality to the video.
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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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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 check how long a video (mp4) is using the shell?
I need to ftp upload all the mp4 files in a directory with length > 4 minutes using the shell. I can't find any script to check how long a video is. Does anybody have any idea how to do that?
Thank ...
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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 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 can I detect motion in a long, mostly dull video?
I need a way to scan through hours and hours of recorded video (mp4, mov, avi, doesn't matter, I can fix that) to search for motion. The videos consist of many, many hours of dull nature scenes like ...
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What video players do you recommend? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What Media Players Are there?
What video players do you recommend for ubuntu. Is there any video player that supports good playback of 720p videos in oldish hardware?
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How to convert VIDEO_TS folder to video format
I have a movie directory with a sub directory VIDEO_TS in it. I want to convert this to a video file like avi, mp4, etc... How can I convert this?
Right now I can see it with VLC of course but I want ...
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How to install dot provided by graphviz?
How can install the package? I have to do a test dot -Tpng -o <path> <path>
But while installing it fails.
$ uname -a
Linux GoogleKnockOuter 2.6.38-8-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 11 03:...
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Software to create a video slideshow?
I have a bunch of pictures I'd like to make into a basic slideshow, as a video (e.g. mpeg/avi). What software is available to do this?
I started using PiTiVi based on recommendation in another ...
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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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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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Is it possible for two processes to access the webcam at the same time?
I would like to try using Cheese in Google+ Hangouts, and similar configurations, and I would like to know if it is possible for the webcam to be used by two processes to have access to the webcam at ...
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Webcam software with live chroma keying/green screen
I want to take live camera feed (from webcam or other source) and apply a chroma key effect in order to remove the background (i.e. green screening) and then want to replace the background with a ...
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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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How to fast convert mp4 to webm using ffmpeg?
I have to convert 76 mp4 files to webm for the purpose of a website that uses HTML5 videos. I'm talking about 10 Gb of mp4 files...
I know I can simply ask ffmpeg to do that using:
ffmpeg -i ...
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Twitter media cannot be played from Firefox
I just installed Ubuntu 16.10 but it cannot play some videos from Twitter in Firefox. Instead, I get a message, something like
This media cannot be reproduced.
If I open the Firefox console, I see ...
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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 do I resume video play from the point it was stopped with VLC?
How can I play a video starting from the point it was stopped last time?
This is useful for watching long videos.
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and VLC media player.
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How to download a portion of a video with youtube-dl OR something else?
I'd like to be able to download a portion of a video only. For example, being able to specify a start and/or end time for downloading. So, when a user inputs a start and end time of a video, it should ...
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how to start a video from the terminal?
The terminal is where everything gets done in linux.
So if this is true, how can I play an AVI video (.avi extension) from the Terminal?
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