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gstreamer: no element >>x264enc<<

today I have a new question. I want to encode a videostream to h264. But when I start the gstreamer program i get the following error. No Element >>x264enc<< I installed the ...
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Home server not mounting external disks

When I plug in a flash drive or hard drive to my local server (running debian squeeze) the machine doesn't seem to be mounting the devices in /media/usb*. Is there an step that I am missing? I trued ...
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Determining media format/encoding for DLNA system

How do you determine what parameters are needed by a DLNA renderer and server? I have a Samsung TV that is a DLNA renderer. I also have a Western Digital NAS running Debian and have Twonky and ...
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HD Video Sticks

I have HD video, which I play through browser. Whenever I try to play it with "low quality" and "medium quality", the video plays smoothly. But when I select "High quality", the same video sticks ...
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Permission rights on automatic directories inside /media

I got a permission denied when I am trying to cd inside a directory. I could chown it for my user, however I'm wondering if the problem is elsewhere: The directory in question is an automatic ...
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How to set metadata for music files?

In windows music files have metadata like artist name, album name associated with them. How is this metadata stored. Is it stored in file system like other file attributes or is it part of MP3 data ...
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Why do I have to use sh to execute scripts from CD/DVD media?

I hit again on this strange behaviour of the system. I'm running Debian 6.0.6 and had quite some troubles executing a script directly from CD/DVD. Finally I had to use: sh /media/cdrom/command to ...
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How can I view and play shared audio files through a network?

I've come up with a quick pet project (which might, maybe, even end up being useful at my home someday); the idea is to allow users of a Linux device (I'll call it A, and it'll probably be a small ...
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Correct timeline of a .ts file

I have some MVs that is recorded from a TV, but timeline was incorrect somehow: Anyone know some tool that can fix it ? The media plays fine, just the displayed stuff doesn't look good
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How to forward a window (display) to another computer on the network

I'm setting up a media server for my movies. The server is networked and so are a couple laptops/desktops. The server is running the latest Ubuntu (desktop edition, not server). This is the scenario ...
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How to disable tmpfs on /media in openSUSE?

In OS 11.4 /media is a regular directory. Whatever I put there, it stays. In OS 12.1 /media is tmpfs. Whatever I put there, on next restart is gone. The question is -- how to get rid of tmpfs on ...
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G722 in gstreamer is not available or its need to be activated? How do i do that?

Gstreamer how to use G.722 enc and dec? Is this not available or missing in there implementation? $ gst-inspect | grep ffmpeg ffmpeg: ffaudioresample: FFMPEG Audio resampling element ffmpeg: ...
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How to timestamp a transcripted talk?

I'm trying to mark each paragraph of transcripted text with timestamps of when/where it occurs in the audio. mplayer and emacs are getting me close. mplayer, in the terminal, outputs a stream of ...
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Simulate Windows Media Player media sharing

My new TV can play media that's being shared by windows computers over the local network. Unfortunately, It only sees media that's being shared by Windows Media Player (not standard file sharing), and ...
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Which root paths should reside on fast media?

Which paths under / should be mounted on fast media, and which can be mounted on slower media without significantly affecting system performance? My guess: Fast Partition: swap (2G) Partition: ...
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What does “video output” mean in media players?

What does "video output" mean in the context of media players? Possible values are: x11, xv, vdpau etc. Are these drivers?
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Linux Distro and Media Server Software choice

I'm going to be building a computer and setting it up as a media center for the guys I live with. The things I would like it to do are show up in iTunes as a shared library, and probably be able to ...
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Simple keyboard-less interface for playing video?

Can anyone suggest a simple GUI that works with a remote control from which I can play video files and DVDs, and mount removable media? Preferably not MythTV, because I already spent two weeks trying ...
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MediaTomb - Not showing Cover Art from music folder in the photo collection

MediaTomb adds album covers and DVD covers into the photo collection. That means, when you are going through your photos, you also get album covers intermixed in there. Is there a way of restricting ...
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How to specify the media directory in MediaTomb

I have mediatomb in ubuntu. I have started it with "sudo service mediatomb start", and its process shows in ps. But in the config I cant find where to specify the media directory. I searched the web ...
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Video playlists with start and end times

Is there a good GUI-application (for example an mplayer GUI or something like banshee) for linux which allows to make and edit playlists (for video files) with different starting and stopping times ...
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Auto-mounting to a directory other than /media in Fedora 13

I am using Fedora 13. I need to be able to configure how media are mounted automatically. For an example, I want to change the parent of all mounted media to be a directory other than /media. All the ...
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How do I add MP3/etc support to my *nix desktop?

Almost every desktop *nix seems to ship without support for MP3 or other popular codecs that you really need. What is the easiest way to add support for these codecs?