i have set the display to go to sleep after 5 min. but it still goes to sleep when i am watching movie.
how can i stop this, it should only go to sleep when it is ideal, not when i am watching movie
I just installed Ubuntu 10.4 today... but I�ve got a weird problem...
When I want to play an official DVD, Mplayer and VLC start and close down immediately..
When I want to play a movie from my HDD I get this (see attachment) with Mplayer and with VLC..Totem just doesn't want to play it..
but whats really weird is when I make a screenshot using VLC even though the colours are weird the screen shot comes out normal
when I'm traying to watch 720p and 1080p movies, MKV format. The movie is breaking all time, do I need to install any codecs or extansions, or use another application.I tried VLC player, and it is same. Well i had same problem with Ubuntu 10.10 and could't fix it.
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I use:
-F13 with latest updates
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Is there any way to position subtitles in Totem in a bottom on the black border of the 16:9 movie when showing in the full screen of 4:3 monitor?Or not necessarely in fullscreen, but in a window where black borders are on the top and underneath the actual video frames.
Now always the subtitles covers part of the video on the bottom, which is a shame as there would be empty space underneath also.
The same question for VLC.
Subtitles, would be in the external file.
And I am not looking a solution which would need transencoding the video file.
btw, for GNOME Mplayer, the solution is to put "-vf expand=:-100::2" into Edit/Preferences/Mplayer/Extra_options_to_Mplayer
I recently bought a Samsung LED TV C5000 40", and I'm trying to watch an .mkv file from my pendrive, but it says, "Not Supported Video Codec".
I saw in the TV's user guide and it says it supports .mkv.
I don't know how to get the info about the mkv, but using "themonospot" I got:
- SubtitleTrack01 [eng]S_TEXT/UTF8
- VideoTrack01 V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC (1920x816)
- AudioTrack01 [eng]A_AC3- 48000 Hz - 6 channels
[Code]......
I have a PVR-150 for recording TV shows.
I can record shows using this command:
Code:
cat /dev/video0 > /mnt/raid/show.mpg
I can watch the show.mpg file while its recoding using VLC, Xine, Mplayer... pretty much any video player.
This is nice because i can pause, rewind, and fast-forward live TV, just like all the commercial DVRs out there.
The problem with this method is returning to "Live TV" mode. When using a commercial DVR, when you are fast-forwarding and reach "Live TV", the player stops fast-forwarding and begins playing the live TV in real-time. When doing the same thing with Xine or VLC, the player simply stops when you reach the EOF.
Is there a player that mimics this? When it get close to the EOF, it switches from Fast-Forward to play?
I used to have MythTV, but it way too bloated for what I want to do.
Somebody know some software for watching satellite tv on pc (linux)? For windows and mac is all bunch of software (e.g. one small list is on [URL]), but for linux I found just two (not available for South America and "just" with few hundreds channels).
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Code:
But this is where I'm stuck. I know this might sound stupid, but, what now?
It is in, but what do I have to do to actualy watch TV? Is there any program for that that I have to install? Any more configuring to do? I can do anything, it's not a problem .
I can't open some of the video Clips in Internet in Ubuntu (using Mozilla FireFox), which I can open in Windows. What I can do.
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View 5 Replies View RelatedI'm just getting started with Ubuntu 64-Bit. Basically, I have Totem Movie Player and VLC Media Player installed and every time I watch a movie in either one of them. If I tab out of them or minimize them, when I bring the media player back up the screen is black. The sound still works perfectly but I can't see the movie and I've tried several media players out and they all do the same thing. Basically I can't multitask or bring up anything else while I watch a movie or I have to restart the player because of the media screen going black.
I'm not sure if my computer specs will help but here they are:
Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid 64-Bit
Intel Xeon X3210 2.13GHz Quad
4GB DDR2-800 RAM
ATI Radeon 4870 512MB Videocard
I have a DVB-T (USB) card on a Debian Lenny EEE nettop PC. This works fine.I'd like to know if if it would be possible to use the DVB-T stream over a http server.I mean I'd like to be able to select a channel from a web page and to view it from an embedded player in this page.I do not searching a streaming solution. I'd like all is done on server side.Does anyone know if it is possible and how to achieve this?
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OS:Lucid 64
MM App :vlc , smplayer
Speaker Setup : 2.0 (Stereo)
I'm trying to watch some of my college's sports online, and they are set-up to use silver-light, but for me it is epic fail. Seems like others are having similar problems, but that is why this is a FAQ, or a FOP, frequently occurring problem. And if I don't post it again, its not treated as a frequent occurring problem. The college page suggests that I use moonlight to watch, but the iced/tea program it recommended broke other programs operation.
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View 4 Replies View RelatedI'm using Debian Squeeze with Fluxbox and I'm having a problem with xscreensaver. I've set to blank screen after 10 minutos of inactivity, but the problem is that when I'm watching a movie, the screen is blanked after 10 minutes too. So I have to manually kill xscreensaver before starting to see a movie, or I have to move my mouse / press keyboard every 10 minutes to activate the screen again.
I've done some search before posting and I only found something about a SMPlayer's option named "Disable screensaver", but it is already on and it has no effect preventing xscreensaver to work. Here is a screen shoot of my SMPlayer configuration window:
[URL]
Apparently, xscreensaver isn't being able to recognize that another program is running. Could it be related to dbus?
PS: I had a dbus problem when I first upgraded to squeeze, my multimedia keys stoped working in banshee (whenever I clicked to play/pause/next etc, another banshee process was started), but I solved it by adding this line to my ~/.xinitrc: eval "$(dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session)"
I am running openSUSE 11.1 on a Pentium Dual Core 2.5 (E5200) Processor, 2GB RAM and an NVidia 8400GS PCI Express display card.When I intitially installed my system I also installed VLC media player, at that time it was version 1.0.1, Mplayer and SMplayer a few codecs for K3B, handbrake for DVD ripping etc. That was also the only time since my computer has been online, i have never updated it since. And it had no problems whatsoever. Among other things I use my system to watch DVD's. I watched many DVD's and video clips flawlessly.
Now all of a sudden when watching DVD's and video clips the DVD playback flickkers red (the color red). I am not sure what causes it and it is very irritating. It flickkers even more with video clips. With a DVD it dissappears after a while but as soon as you move your mouse pointer or click on the screen it starts to flickker red again.I thought it was my NVidia card that might be faulty, but I booted up from a Puppy linux live-cd and I played a DVD from there and it works 100%.
I configured Dell Latitude D620 to go to sleep mode (suspend to ram) when i close the lid. It suspends ok and then I open the lid. It wakes up ok, but few seconds after goes to sleep again! So I need to press the power button to force it to wake up.
Sleep button works just fine. /etc/acpi/sleep.sh from console too.
/etc/acpi/events/lidbtn
Code:
event=button[ /]lid
action=/etc/acpi/sleep.sh
update:
I noticed that it always goes to sleep again when I wake up laptop by opening the lid. For example if I run /etc/acpi/sleep.sh, pm-suspend or press the sleep button laptop goes to sleep, then i close the lid and when i open it back - the problem occurs.
So I've recently switched over to Ubuntu as my media center OS, and I'm running Hulu Desktop (which works very nicely).
The problem is, the screen keeps sleeping on me after inactivity and it won't come back unless I use the keyboard or mouse (the remote won't wake it). The computer is still running, audio and all - and just a black screen.
I have the screensaver set to never, the power saving settings set as high as they go - and it still does it.
I've searched the forums for a solution but I can't seem to come up with anything; any ideas?
Looks like I found a solution; Caffeine (launchpad.net/caffeine) is a little applet that will disable sleep/screensaver while in certain apps (or for a certain amount of time). I don't know why changing the system preferences wouldn't accomplish this, but Caffeine did the trick anyway (and actually works out better anyway)
Running 9.10 on the computer I am having a terrible time with.
Intro
I have a small office of 5 comps. I had a guy come in to change the router to a bigger one, to go from 4 to 8 outlets. I was changing the service, so first we went to the new company's smaller router and then to the bigger one.
Well, my old Dell and another older box never could get reconnected after the guy pulled out the smaller one and put in the bigger one. First migration was fine though.
I believe I have seen this problem before. I have had several instances of weird internet outages involving single (or worse, a pair of) machines that eventually can go back online. There are some serious bugs in NetworkManager I think which are putting these devices to sleep.
Symptoms
Symptoms I have already seen a lot around here. Yes, I have lights where the line goes in. The system will try to get a dhcp lease and then give up, telling me I am disconnected. That's it. I tried to install wicd on the machine that I reinstalled (again to 9.10), but it was the same, no way to get an IP address.
I have nothing in the networkmanager.state file at all. My nm.config.settings has a no-auto-default:00:16:82:XX:XX line.
And of course in frustration I deleted the eth0, so now I had to make a new one, and its not default.
Obligatory Begging
There is no way two machines have the same hardware problem at the same time. Plus, this is the third time in 6 months I have had two machines with connection problems, where we were checking lines against windows machines and wondering about hardware.
I am already resigned to re-installing on the Dell and hoping it goes ok (its really old). And on the other box (a server) I even re-installed multiple times and it still won't work at all, same symptoms. So I am worried at this point that both might be fuXXored by this bug.
I use debian sidunstable. When I suspend my PC, it does sleep fine, but when I try to wake it up, I get a black screen.
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