For months I have successfully downloaded DVD movies from The Pirate Bay, suddenly after devede conversion, avi to iso I get the word 'streaming' and nothing will play, and even when I wrote to disc (in desperation) the disc is empty.
View 4 RepliesI have tried loading/playing (many different) dvds via VLC / new install of 10.04 (on a laptop through which I had been able to play / burn / rip dvds until I "upgraded")...this is what transpires:
Errors:
Code:
Playback failure:
DVDRead could not open the disc "/dev/sr0".
Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'dvd:///dev/sr0'. Check the log for details.
The log reveals:
Code:
dvdread error: DVDRead cannot open source: /dev/sr0
main error: no access module matched "dvd"
main error: open of `dvd:///dev/sr0' failed: no access module matched "dvd".
I dont want to use player like vlc to speedup the playback. I want to actually speedup playback in the original file. Its like I want video to be played 2 times faster.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have an old laptop that used to run on Vista. It got so bogged down with excess software etc that it was barely running. There was no sound and it was unbelievably slow.
I know its supposed to be more stable (almost uncrashable!) and generally faster so I've done a complete reinstall with kubuntu (I tried a few different distributions with live discs and this was my favourite). All I need it to do is play DVDs - I have a netbook for everything else but the screen is too small for watching movies.
The reinstall worked perfectly and I love kubuntu. The sound now works fine and its MUCH faster.
Except ...
Half way through watching a DVD the system seems to suddenly slow down. The DVD playback becomes choppy and unwatchable and even when I close the player, the whole OS is painfully slow. Programs take ages to open. Even selecting shut down or restart takes over a minute.
And here's the weird part. A restart doesn't fix it. If I restart the system and try to watch the DVD again its instantly choppy. And the whole OS is slow. I actually have to leave the whole system off for a while (I usually give up for the night!) before it calms down.
The laptop is not noticeably hot. Leaving the machine on for a long while doesn't cause problems. It seems to be only when watching DVDs. The spec is not especially low (1GB ram and a reasonable processor) and it doesn't matter whether I use VLC, Dragon or Movie Player.
I use 'scripts' to make copies of my ssh sessions for various reasons.
When I access the logs via less, etc, I see this:
Script started on Mon 12 Sep 2011 08:59:14 AM CDT
ESC]0;root@:~^G[root@ESC[1;31m ESC[0;0m~]#
ESC]0;root@:~^G[root@ESC[1;31m ESC[0;0m~]# logout
ESC[HESC[2JConnection to closed.^M
Script started on Mon 12 Sep 2011 09:00:32 AM CDT
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Does anyone know how I can get this cat output into a file for easy viewing?
No sound on my Fedora when I play stuff on my hard disk. Video plays but there would be no sound. But there is sound/audio when I start using a browser. So I guess flash is working. Any basic trouble shooting stuff for audio? I tried this [URL] but the stuff is way over my head.
View 5 Replies View RelatedFresh install of debian lenny / mostly default load
VLC 1.0.5 install
cd rom
dvd rom
vlc plays cd (no audio but can see tracking of song) but not dvd
fstab (cannot edit -permissions and don't know how to effect the proper permissions)
fstab
/dev/hda /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdb /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
someone recommended changing to
/dev/cdrom1 /""
Don't see how that would fix audio but anyway cannot change fstab.
checked advanced input / codec in VLC
dvd = dev/hdb
cd = dev/hda
Totem -plays the dvd but quality / volume is not there, prefer VLC. Soundjuicer plays the audio with sound nicely. Just would like VLC to do it all.
We have a headless linux server (Debian 5) we use for running integration tests of our web-page code. Among these tests are ones implemented using Selenium, which practically simulates a user browsing our pages and clicking on things. One of these tests is failing now, because it involves starting a flash-based audio player and checking to see whether the progress bar gets displayed properly. The reason this test fails is that there is no way to play the audio, and no sound card on the machine, which has simple webserver hardware.
So, my question would be: Is there a simple way of giving a program the impression that its audio output is being processed, and playback is taking place? I don't have to record the playback, or redirect it or anything like that, just a dummy soundcard, like the dummy X-server we are using, which actually does not need to display stuff.
I have tried using JACK, but it's too complicated, and the documentation does not even answer this very simple question. I also installed alsa on the server; it 'pretends' to run, but when a program tries to play audio, just spews error and debug information having to do with the non-existence of a soundcard.
I have a .wav file (a drum beat) that I want to use to play along with. The problem I am encountering is that I can't get either VLC or Windows Media Player (both on Windows 7) to play the file in repeat mode gaplessly, which makes it useless since it's a drum beat and it needs to be precise.
Is there some program on either Windows 7 or linux that you know can do this?
Are there audio player for Linux, that can play audio with some coefficient, that I can manually change, something like x0.5, x0.7, x0.79, 1.0 - normal, x1.5 etc...
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am running ubuntu 10.4, I downloaded VLC player, but when I try to watch a DVD, it only goes as far as the legal warning screen from the dvd movie. What am I doing wrong? I would like to mention that I am a beginner on computers, so not even the average IT skills.
View 12 Replies View RelatedIt would seem that my cds/dvds that I've created under Microsoft vista home premium can't be read/written on (formatted as data disks. Is there a program to be downloaded or an app, that would allow me to read, download or add data to these dcs/dvds. Using ubuntu-10.10 and debian.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI've setup an HTPC with xbmc, and I'd like to output the audio from the system to both my digital and analog outputs on my mother board. How do I do it? Can their be a script that duplicates the output of one to the other? Here's what aplay -l said:
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I play a flash video, and then play music natively the sound doesn't work. Or I can play flash and have sound but not play music with sound that's on my PC. Or I play my music on my PC, say one song, and the other is high pitched distorted, and rings. I have to exit the program and start it again for it to play nice. How do I resolve this most irritating bug?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI've been having a problem with intermittent stuttering in video and audio playback since upgrading to Maverick (it also happened when I briefly installed Lucid). It started out as the odd skip every 20 minutes or so but now it can happen 5 or 6 times in 10 minutes when watching a film. I've tried:
reformatting and clean installing using a half-dozen players installing every codec I could think of (only after the normal ones wouldn't help) diangosing my 3 hard drives (the problem occurs on them all and they're not in a RAID setup) changing then changing back my video drivers disabling pulseaudio and ubuntuone-sync (these were not installed in my previous, working setup) looking at every relevant log file (mplayer, smplayer, demsg...) I know of running ubuntu's testing utilities I'm out of ideas. Going back to Jaunty is the only solution I'm pretty sure will work but it's not exactly ideal. It will be a few months a least before I'm able to install a completely new distro.
i just installed qmt.iso from site qmailtoaster.i can create domain on admin-toaster and add new account at domain.i have problem when i'm testing send email,there warning :"451 DNS temporary failure (#4.5.1 - chkuser)".
View 1 Replies View RelatedIve been at this for two days now, and cant make any progress.
First, the details:
Target Machine:
IBM (e)server, xSeries 306
OS: Fedora 4
Boot Order:
1. CD...
2. Removable Media
3. SATA...
USB Drive:
adata 8GB
Process:
I used the prescribed live usb creator for windows to fill the usb drive. Ive attempted to boot from the USB at least 4 times, once from each USB port on the box. No luck.There isnt an option in the BIOS to select the specific boot device. I bring that up because my desktop does have that option, and using the BIOS BOOT MENU, I was able to boot from the USB and bring up the Fedora 14 Installation Menu, no problem.
So, it works on the pc thats on my desk (eMachine w/XP), but the IBM doesnt even recognize it.
today, i am doing to the terminal for install the package, but seem a failure unable to E: ?
here is an example.
Quote:
eborn@reborn-HP-G62-Notebook-PC:~$ compizconfig-settings-manger
compizconfig-settings-manger: command not found
reborn@reborn-HP-G62-Notebook-PC:~$ ccsm
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i have been running Ubuntu for about 3 days now, finally getting all my files moved back to the drive and what have you.I came from running windows, and an Android phone with full su access, and done up all custom-like..I am loving the speed, etc. great experience so far. BUT: the headphone port on my laptop is broken, and so I run [ran] and external soundcard, a Creative X-fi 5.1 USB SC. I have found linux drivers for this unit, and am trying to install. I have googled the crap out of how to do this, yet am getting stuck.
Here is where I'm getting stuck. I have extracted the package, entered into the sub folder, and am trying to run the Make install:
...laptop:/tmp/xfi-0.0.0.0$ cd ./xfi
...laptop:/tmp/xfi-0.0.0.0/xfi$ su -c "make install"
Password:
su: Authentication failure
...laptop:/tmp/xfi-0.0.0.0/xfi$
what in heck do i type at password... have I NOT done something, am I doing something wrong.... it does not accept my normal password, so I am lost.
Have Ubuntu 10.10 and have ASUS USB-N13 to connect to my Cisco Valet Plus. I have downloaded .inf files and have the adapter blinking and the wireless network recognized by Ubuntu with strong signal, but as soon as I get message 'connection established' and I try to open Firefox I get error message 'Server not found'. I have used WIcd Network manager and WiFi Radar, but still unable to connect.
View 1 Replies View Relatedi am running a sabayon linux system 5.0 when i attempt to log in onto my user account it fades back to log in page. i attempted to log in on the console and it still wont do so, but the avahi daemon does have two exclamation points in red which signifies to my mind an issue with avahi.
i log in as root and the computer opens...i go to system and it says the avahi daemon is not activating..my question... do i need the avahi daemon or is it redundant?would removing avahi damage the over all operating of my computer or should i have a geek reconfigure it
I have a box running Lenny and boot with lilo. Today there was a power failure and now the system is stuck on Lilo ..It doesnt get passed that. I tried to boot in single mode but the same thing is happens. How can I fix this problem
View 3 Replies View Relatedupon starting openuse ireceived the msg fsck failed please reboot manually theroot file system is currently mounted read only t oremount it read-writedo:
bash# mount -n -o remount,rw/
doesn't seem to do anything if typing above line after giving root password and following red msg appears (repair filesystem #)
.After trying to instal 10.40 as a "guest" of Windows7 in its own partition on drive D I got all the way thru then re-booted to finish the install as requested. At that point after reboot I selected Ubuntu from the boot menu then it hung up after quickly displaying and overwriting some option numbers - probably for GRUB
I uninstalled 10.40 then tried Ubuntu 9.4. It worked better and gave me an option menu after the install reboot. If I chose "normal" it also hung up.I was succesful by chosing one of the other GRUB choices that it gave me.Now everything works but with an older version.
I have Ubuntu 10.04 on a 500gb WD hdd and a second WD 500gb as my music drive. The bios sees the drive with my music but I cannot access the drive at all after booting up, i.e. I can't see the drive at all. I searched on here awhile and looked at the "similar threads" link but didn't find anything that seemed to answer this.
View 4 Replies View Relatedserver has stopped responding 2x the past week. can't authenticate locally, web servers are not responding, etc. reboot seems to resolve the issue temporarily, but it looks like a disk or controller failure.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI want the wget command to work on my linux machine.This is the output of the uname command on my machine Linux kalpana
Quote:
I get the error -ksh: wget: command not found.So can anyone tell me how do I install the wget utility on my machine.
I need to know: how do not automatically restart GNU/Linux after a critical system failure(kernel panic). For some reason the pc is rebooted, actually throws the error screen Reboot just moments before, but I can't to read it before you reboot.
View 1 Replies View RelatedAs part of our back up strategy we back up data to two external strorage devices (NAS buffalo linkstation) via a cron job. Recently I noticed that the linkstation backups were not working and the server (via the terminal) complained about CIFS write error or something along these lines. I decided to reboot the server and this fixed the problem for one week for one of the linkstations and for a few weeks for the other linkstation.
There are no error messages this time on the server or on any of the logs that I have checked but the backups are not being made and the processes are still running for the days that backups have not been made.
the backups used to work everyday without fail until recently and no changes have been made to the script that does the backup..
I'm trying to solve an intermittant serial port problem on an embedded medical monitor. We have determined that the port is receiving characters from the external device but the serial thread is not transferring the chars from the buffer. this problem happens at start up about 1 in 50 boots. We're using kernal 2.6.29.6.
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