Questions tagged [video]
related or about the video issues, the range varies from playing a video file, the formats, tools to work with it in *nix operatin systems up to issues surrounding it in specific environment (ie. console, framebuffer, X11 ...)
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no suitable video mode found booting in blind mode kali Linux
no suitable video mode found booting in blind mode kali
Hp z440 workstation tower pc
Plz help me fix the error
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CPU spikes to 30% when watching any kind of videos in exodia os (arch distro)
Recently i switched from windows to Linux.
I've been trying a lot of distros, but my choice fell on exodia (arch distro based on bspwm). I find it really useful for me as someone who is into ...
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How can I debug Xorg failing to hot-plug outputs?
When I connect my laptop to USB-C docking station, Xorg fails to recognize the new, hot-plugged outputs. This is what xrandr gives me:
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 16384 ...
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find/change audio format and avi version of a given avi file
I have an overhead projector that supports playing data from USB sticks. For videos it has the following limitations (quotes from the user manual):
file type: AVI
The audio format can only playback ...
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How to join a Microsoft Teams meeting with video just from the Meeting ID and passcode?
There seem to be different kinds of Microsoft Teams links. For example, when I generate a link using the Teams For Linux app, they're of the form:
https://teams.live.com/meet/55366767345647
But some ...
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FFMPEG replace specific place in a video
I have a show on my drive. In that series, there is a intro which starts randomly, one time at 2:00, second at 1:33, etc. However, I have a "custom intro" in a file. I want to replace that ...
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How to run a SDL2 demo in embedded Linux system with a LCD display?
I am working on an embedded Linux system (5.10.24), and there is a LCD display in it.
Now I am trying to run a SDL2 example in it (from serial console), but I failed to do that.
The example codes are ...
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How to add "rotate video" items to context (right-click) menu in Nemo
I want to add 3 right-click items to the Nemo context menu to rotate a video file clockwise, anticlockwise, or 180°. This is useful when going through video collections that might not have rotation ...
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Video capture, one device to another via usb-c only
I was capturing gameplay on one linux device via another. (for Twitch streaming). I had connected them thusly,
Gaming PC -> usb-c video output dongle -> HDMI cable -> usb-c capture dongle -&...
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How to simple record the full application window like obs does in ffmpeg / other programs?
In obs there is a feature capture window feature that can record the application in full without cutting parts, I have read the ffmpeg instructions but it is not easy what I want is simple how can ...
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Capture a jpeg image / image stream from a console program?
I'm running a headless Raspberry Pi, and would like to convert the console/terminal output to a single jpeg or video stream.
For example: capture the output of pbytop every few seconds and stream it ...
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how to insert audio from video A into video B (no audio)?
Id like to create a video C with audio from video A but video from video B.
Video A and video B have nearly the same length in seconds.
Since the videos are a couple GBs, I guess it would be slower if ...
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Secondary monitor not detected by debian, but visible in NVidia-settings utility
The problem
I did a fresh install of Debian 11 (Debian 5.10.162-1 (2023-01-21) x86_64 GNU/Linux) on my Omen 15 (15-en0xxx) laptop.
SecureBoot is currently disabled in my UEFI settings to ensure my ...
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Recording/capturing/grabbing remote desktop RDP session as video on Linux?
I have just learned about RDP, and have successfully used remmina on my Ubuntu machine to connect to a remote Windows PC.
Now, I would like to record that remote desktop session as video from the ...
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How can record audio and video with ffmpeg at the same time?
I want to record with the hard device in my os:
lsusb | rg -i camera
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 2bdf:0284 SN0002 HIK 1080P CAMERA
It is a web-camera.
video can be recorded in my os with the ffmpeg ...
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xfce4-panel not showing up after switching video cards
I recently changed video cards and now my xfce4-panel isn't showing up. I've checked the process list and found that xfce4-panel is running and I've tried restarting it. I made no other changes other ...
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Gnome installed after LXQt doesn't use Wayland?
While streaming and recording with Debian 11, running LXQt and Openbox as the WM, I would drastically lose frames. I heard that the solution for this would be to use XWayland or qtwayland5 on LXQt, ...
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EasierCAP works in video, but no audio, even though
EasierCAP works in video, but no audio, even though pavucontrol does seem to be showing variations. I tried VLC, ffmpeg, mplayer... All result in the same: Video but no sound.
The audio level ...
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Downloading a segment of a youtube video and cropping it precisely
I have an interesting little problem.
I want to download a specific section of a youtube video, this is easy enough to do with the magic of yt-dlp:
yt-dlp -f "(bestvideo+bestaudio)[protocol!*=...
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Why don't any Linux distros have a built-in ability to edit media metadata? [closed]
In Windows you can simply right-click a media file and edit its metadata - no additional software needed. Why is this ability absent in Linux? Is there some inherent technical limitation in Linux that ...
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Webcam's power line frequency setting does not take effect if a new application that uses it is open
I am living in Europe and I have bought a Logitech C920 webcam whose power line frequency setting should be changed to 50Hz in order to avoid flickering. I did it using the following instruction:
/usr/...
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Bad video and audio performance in all media players
I am having trouble playing any video files on my desktop computer running Pop!_OS.
I have managed to get VLC to play audio at the correct time, but the video is delayed. YouTube videos start but ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 USB-C dock no video
I've got a Wavlink WL-UMD502 usb-c docking station connected to a USB 3.2 Gen 2 port (USB-C) with an Ubuntu 22.04 5.15.0.56-generic kernel. I installed the device driver for the Wavlink docking ...
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Spurious display of frame-time statistics on some applications
Since I cannot precisely tell what upgrade (possibly nvidia-drivers from 340 to 470 or mesa 20 to 22 or even xorg-server 1.20 to 21) or following the first time I ran glxgears after upgrading ? :
I (...
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add/edit custom metadata fields to video files without remuxing?
TL;DR - Looking for a way to edit/add CUSTOM metadata fields to video files without remuxing.
I have some media files that I add custom metadata fields to (mostly mkv files downloaded with yt-dlp but ...
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How to detect display driver info
Is it possible to check the different status of video drivers when it is on, is off, in error, in no-signal?
Example: monitor off - some state 0-, monitor no-signal - some state not connected and so ...
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What is a UVC device and how does it work without drivers?
I searched for video recording equipment to use with Linux. Upon searching I find some products that state that they do not come with drivers because it is a UVC device. Assuming that other products ...
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Video files freeze/loop while audio continues to play
When starting the video, monitor flickers on and off 2 times and video freezes or loops on the few first seconds while audio plays as normal, and seek bar moves as it should.
Jumping ahead on the seek ...
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Preventing atomatic driver loading on live boot disk
I'm preparing ubuntu-base live boot disk.
It works fine mostly, but on some machines equped with Nvidia Quadro cards
the default nouveau driver causes problems (temporary freezes).
I've determined ...
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Haruna video playback stutters, but MPV does not
Kubuntu 22.04 LTS, R5 5600X, RX 6700XT
I'm not sure why, but when playing HEVC High 10bit videos Haruna stutters hard, but only the video part, the audio plays just fine. It doesn't matter what ...
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Disney+ suddenly doesn't work in Brave on Linux, but it does on Windows
Disney+ suddenly doesn't work in Brave (Chromium-based) on Linux, but it does on Windows
It won't play a movie or series, the main page works, just everything but actual playback.
The page is in one ...
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Error starting video in vlc via command line on a Raspberry PI 4
I recently installed the OS Raspbian 64 bit lite (Without User Interface). Since I need it to play a video file, I use the VLC player which I also successfully installed via SSH with the command: sudo ...
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How to disable the microphone of a Logitech BRIO webcam under Linux?
I have a Logitech BRIO webcam, which has a microphone that I never use. To avoid confusion, I would like to disable it on the lowest possible level. Can I somehow tell Linux to never load the driver ...
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Dell Latitude 5430 no external video output with Rocky 9
I'm testing a Dell Latitude 5430 laptop to see if it will work with Rocky 9, a derivative of RHEL 9. So far everything is working except the external video connections. The laptop has three options ...
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Check what media is now playing from the command line
My desktop environment seems to know what music I am playing. I want to be able to check that from the command line too. Is there a tool or dbus query that will tell me what music or media is ...
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Create MP4 or another playable video format from frame series of JPEG in a directory
So I have frame series of JPEG in a folder let's say folder cctv where inside of that folder is only series of JPEG with unix timestamp named in nanosecond.
I mean like this ( I used tail because too ...
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Is it possible to make SMPlayer check for and load external subtitles from a subdirectory (e.g. ./Subs/*.srt etc)?
I generally use VLC and that works fine most of the time but at a recommendation to check out mpv and mpv-based players, I have been trying to see if SMPlayer would also work for my needs. However, I ...
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Making a video from separate audio mp3 and background video using ffmpeg, adding artist picture and text
I am trying to make a video from:
a music mp3
a background video as mp4
an overlay with artist picture
Text with song information
The script I have works fine for the image/text overlay and if the ...
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Linux Mint 20.3 laptop freezes randomly because of nouveau driver
When my system freezes randomly it starts to slow down heavily and in the end it does not react anymore. I can provoke it pretty consistently, if I start Firefox alone (with many tabs open) and start ...
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How to use double tap to advance videos on touchscreen laptop
Is there any way to make video players recognize that a double tap on my laptop's touchscreen is different from a double tap on the touchpoad, i.e. make the player advance the video when double ...
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How can I watch an encrypted Blu-ray on a Linux desktop?
I have some retail Blu-Ray movies with DRM that I want to watch on my Linux desktop.
I want to watch the movie directly from the disc. Tutorials I found online tell me how to rip it to a file, but I ...
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Is it possible to open a webpage which displays live video in full screen from terminal?
(Working on an RPi) I would like to open a webpage which is displaying live video content in full screen from terminal. By this, I don't mean having the web page itself open in full screen, but rather ...
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VLC Crashing when loading any video
When trying to open any video in my Linux distro, be it an mp4 file or movie ISO, VLC would immediately crash. None of the current resources online helped my case. Does anyone have any fixes?
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Using excess video memory for disk caching?
On newer Ryzen 5000-based laptops, the integrated graphics controller always gets at least 1GB of shared video memory. In the BIOS settings, 1GB is the minimum. For people who don't need 1GB for video ...
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What does mediainfo mean when it says a video is truncated?
I have two ways of checking for damaged video files. The first is using mediainfo and runs instantly:
mediainfo "$1" | grep --color 'IsTruncated'
The second is manually going through the ...
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FFMpeg Join mp4 Files Without Re-encoding but Keep Original Frame Rate
I tried adding the -vsync vfr as a post suggested on https://superuser.com/a/1514949/1348487 but the original frame rate is not kept.
find *.mp4 | sed 's:\ :\\ :g'| sed 's/^/file /' > list.txt; ...
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Change default xorg.conf video driver
Debian 11 here with LXDE (Xorg + lightdm)
How could I change the driver used by X?
My X is using the default options, I have no /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, so I generate one with the command sudo X -...
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Why the rtsp stream can be opened in smplayer gui instead of cli?
The rtsp url for my home ip camera is such format rtsp://admin:xxxx@192.168.1.80:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=0.I can open it with SMPlayer's gui window.
Why can't it be open with ...
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How can I join mp4 files in Linux without transcoding the files?
is there a GUI or command-line utility for Linux that would allow me to join several mp4 files into one file? I need to join them in such a way that the original files won't be affected in any way. I ...
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Move and rename video files (*.mp4) shorter than 3 min
I am trying to create a bash script that moves/renames (and / or creates a symbolic link) to all video files that are shorter than 3 min.
So far I have this Find command:
find "$findpath" -...
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