Ubuntu Multimedia :: Dazed And Confused About Video?
Oct 28, 2010
But I am truly confused. I have searched the Multimedia & Video forum for some help about my TV stuff. I've found nothing I can apply to my system. I want to watch American ATSC tv, record on my hard drive and if possible schedule recording for another time. But I would take watching and recording alone. Recently, I asked, in another Ubuntu forum, if the drivers for what I think are necessary for my TV-card (AVermedia A188 'Duet' Duet for dual tuenrs on 1 card) are now in-built into the kernel. The reply was:
LGDT3305 and SAA7160
With the LG
/lib/modules/2.6.35-22-generic-pae/kernel/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/lgdt3305.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.35-22-generic-pae/kernel/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/lgdt330x.ko
With the Philips this was closest:
/lib/modules/2.6.35-22-generic-pae/kernel/drivers/media/video/saa7164/saa7164.ko
so, my AVermedia Duet should work?
I tried Me-TV and it said I had no DVB devices available. I tried TV Time and the "screen" flashes on screen and vanishes off-screen. I tried lspci | -vnn (or something I found in another post and they got some terminal output) and the terminal returned nothing for me. I tried to look at DMESG, and saw some stuff about the recently installed TV Time, but I cannot understand enough of it and won't post that long string of lines unless asked. I looked at the Video4Linux hardware section and I think that this AVermedia card, a pci-express device is working, although they don't specifically mention it. Only that SAA716x is working.
Reading some of the posts at Multimedia and Video, on a search for AVermedia, I see some people installing dvb-utils or some similarly named applet. That applet scans for digital tv signals and creates a list, which when added to some other existing file, allows some TV application to find the channels. I tried to install that and aptitude returned -no such program-.
I am building new AMD PC and done lot of research on motherboards, now I am getting confused with the two motherboards, ASUS and Gigabyte..I am searching for a board with no integrated VGA and no SLI with 5.1 audio, good price.I heard that some motherboards of Gigabyte caught fire.
I have read several guides about setting up a DNS server using Yast, now I am confuse, some guides use hostname in mx records and ns records, other guides uses alias, with the respective A record not been the hostname but and alias, Now, I have a DNS server with the hostname server01 with the ip address 192.168.0.10 and a router with the address 192.168.0.1, this server is also the mail server, how will be registered the NS record, and MX record and the A record in yast for this server?
I was thinking in ns record as server01 MX record server01 with the value of 0 and an A record server01 A 192.168.10
I want to watch a certain video on [url]...., but I get an error message instead. Some videos can be played, so I'm thinking it's a form of restriction, but I can't be sure.I tried using a few proxies, but on some the error message persists and on others the video doesn't load. I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 and Firefox 3.5.8.
I have two seperated video clips, that captured same event from two cameras. i would like to create one clip, that will show one on the left side, the second on the right side, and play together.
When I play large HD videos in mplayer, the video and sound frequently get out of sync, and the video plays a little strangely (occasionally speeding up and occasionally slowing down).
I think it's because mplayer is only running on a single core. As I've got a quad-core processor, it seems inefficient. I've seen that there is theoretically a way to get mplayer to work with multicore setups, but it requires compiling with different options. That'd take me a little while to work through.
Ideally there would be a pre-compiled version in the software centre, or a player which has support built in (again, ideally in the software centre). Is there such a thing available?
I have a video file in which the audio runs faster than the video, so they quickly go out of sync. The way to fix it would be to separate the audio and video streams, speed up the video (the audio is FINE, it's the video that's wrong), and then recombining them. What is the easiest way for doing that?
video playback is like I have applied a blueish sepia filter over it. And this is just the playback from totem player or mplayer, and not the playback from ..... (and generally online streaming) - this works just fine. this messy video playback also appears when I use cheese to capture video with my webcam. Note that the preview picture of the video file on nautilus has the natural colours it should have.
at first when I installed the os this particular problem didn't exist, but it came up the time I decided to follow the "comprehensive multimedia guide". So now I have all the pros of following the guide, but this is a major con...
this happens with both VLC and Totem, when in either of those programs playing a video, if I click on one of the top menus, say View in Totem, the video stays on top of the drop down options. In order to see the options I have to hover over them with the mouse at which point they become momentarily visible. I read a post somewhere where someone had a similar problem and it was solved by reinstalling Compiz, but I've tried uninstalling it entirely, reinstalling it, etc. and none of it works. It doesn't happen with flash videos in firefox, it does happen with visualisations in Totem, and it only started happening since I upgraded to 11.04.
the movie i downloaded plays for only 19 sec and stops saying you will be redirected to microsoft download page. the file is 700 Mb. i installed w32 codecs after searching through many threads but still my vlc doesnt play the file.
I'm using 9.10 on acer aspire one (not the netbook remix).im using the default messanger client empathy.everything else works fine but when i try to video chat the video chat begins but if the other person even moves a litte or even nods his head then the video becomes so choppy that u cant see anything and then after 5 min comes back to normal for a second or two.i have all the latest updates and gstreamer0.10-ugly-multiverse which is required for video chat b/w empathy and gtalk.
My system: Pentium 4 3.6 GHz, 3 Gb DDR ram, GeForce 210 video card, Ubuntu 10.04.
I have previously used Cinelerra-cv (on Karmic) and recently Openshot (on Lucid) with not much trouble. I have been sampling other video editors (Kdenlive, avidemux, kino etc). Now I have my video card crashing whichever I use, mainly when trying to load clips. I have disabled Compiz, uninstalled all video editors and then reinstalled one at a time. I still get early video crashes whichever I try.
I am setting up a MythTV environment to switch from Windows based MediaPortal (with a high number of disturbing bugs). Yet, I have three difficulties, which I want to discuss with you. They are:
- No audio via HDMI see [URL] - Video resolution seems to change during video playback - Channels cannot be found via DVB-S [URL]
As you can see, I have created three posts to keep discussions focused.
Alltogether I have the following setup:
- AMD 5050e CPU - 8 GByte RAM - Biostar TA890GXE - Samsung LE40M86BD, connected via HDMI (and only HDMI) - Mythbuntu 10.10 with proprietary drivers installed - Technisat Skystar HD2 DVB-S card (two times)
Now, here is the problem:
Whenever I playback any video material using e.g. VLC, the screen resolution changes. This also applies when playback the video in a window and not fullscreen. The problem is that whenever the screen resolution changes, short time later the TV set blanks screen and show the TV set specific information "unsupported video mode".
How can I enforce to stay in the configured video mode?
Phenom 9500+ quad core, 3GB RAM, Nvidia 8800GT: 260.19.36 driver.Installed the latest Boxee for Linux. Got my remote setup. Everything works except when I open a video it opens in a tiny box in the upper left hand corner of my monitor.Is there any way to get Boxee videos to play full-screen?
Just installed Ubuntu 10.10 on an old Dell Dimension 8400 with an ATI RV370 Radeon X300 video card and 512MB of Ram. The video seems to go very fast and skips. I followed the Comprehensive Multimedia & Video Howto but still have the same issue. I have also read many posts but I have trouble understanding some of the responses. Could it be the low amount of RAM?
I have an integrated intel video and latest xserver-xorg-video-intel driver(using only stable repo). Now I wanna watch high-res video. From the bits of info collected from all over internet I understood that I need to:
1.aptitude install libdrm libva.
2.compile or find the .deb mplayer-vaapi and install it.
3.add -vo vaapi -va vaapi to the mplayer command line in gnome-mplayer.
My question : is that correct or did I miss something? Do I have to compile latest libdrm and libva or the ones from the squeeze repo will be good? Do I need kms enabled, i.e. install firmware-linux-nonfree?
Problem is very similar to: Problems playing mkv HD films in opensuse but not windows but with enough differences that I start a new thread:
* playback in VLC does not work -- there is only sound
* playback in SMplayer works, however -- when I scroll forward, the video freezes and sound continues, to unfreeze video I have scroll a tiny bit backward
I tried changing the video ouput driver (in SMplayer) from xv to xv/noveu-nvidia, it didn't help. Please note, that I use the same settings (initially) as before in OS11.1.
i read the sticky post on here about how to try and get my wireless card working.
i have installed opensuse 11.4 i followed step 1 of post and got following: /usr/bin/lsusb Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
I been looking on Google to convert videos to mp3 audio and all I get is just a video conversion from one format to another and some things I installed just get error messages so I took them back off. Anyone know the proper syntax in Mencorder to convert a video just to audio? Or any other program I can use that won't cause this much trouble?
I know that this is easy, but I am confused.I have three computers all with a clean install of SUSE 11.2. Two of them use wifi with the internet and the third is wired.I would like to share files between them all of them.When I go to dolphin/network there is nothing there and I don't know how to set it up.
This is my first time creating a video DVD from other video files. I drag and dropped 2 .flv files to the area where it tells you to drag them. They appeared there. Then I clicked "Burn..." and brasero disappeared.
I played a 16:9 video from the laptop on my TV, connecting the TV with a video cable. My laptop has a 4:3 screen, and that's what I got on the TV: big black borders on the left and right of the 4:3 picture. I messed around with Display Settings, but I couldn't get a 16:9. Is there some way to get a 16:9 picture on the TV?
I've had performance issues in Chrome and Mozilla with flash streaming video for months and am trying anything to fix the problems.Today I wound up with no video at all. You tube videos are just a plain grey box now. Daily show is just plain black boxes where the videos are supposed to appear.
I've downloaded a few suggested converters, but they don't seem t ohave the right combination..I have some .avi's (from my camera) and want to put them on my website (using Joomla AllVideo component) so they have to be converted to .flv or maybe .mov.
I just upgraded from Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10 today, and went to watch a movie on my hard drive. I typically do this with an S-Video cord on my TV. In Ubuntu 9.04 I did so simply by plugging in the S-Video cord, then pressing FN+F4 on my keyboard. Worked like a charm.
After the upgrade the same key combination just changes my resolution setting.
I was using skype to make video calls from my windows machine to my home to contact my parents...who use another windows machine..without any problems for the last one month.
I switched to ubuntu just yesterday and installed skype..
Talking over to them was a pain...the line was full of disturbances and the video was only one way though I recieved calls and could see them they could not see me
