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Where is lighttpd.conf? Mybook world 2 whitelight webserver
I'm attempting to get my Roku streaming box with a channel called Roksbox to stream content off my MyBook World 2 whitelight. I want a directory listing of a certain folder of a share, Media. It's ...
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Seeing part of a clip before it fully downloaded
Is there any way to see the part that been downloded of a clip (wmv, flv..etc) from any download site like mediafire.. I mean to see the clip before it fully downloaded.
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Any HTPC solution - hardware + software or just software - with good DVB-IPTV support
I get my TV-signals over IP to my home, but the software for the solution is really bad and has lots of issues with record functionality and no way of getting content of my network.
I've been looking ...
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What exactly distinguishes a “streaming” container format for audio/video data?
Some AV container formats (like MPEG-4 part 14 and Matroska) are supposed to be "streaming-ready" or "streaming file formats", while others like AVI are not. What does that actually mean?
Does that ...
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No sound in any media player
No media player has any sound. If I try to play any video file there is only video, and no sound. This happens with Windows Media Player and Media Player Classic. I have K Lite Codec Pack version 8 ...
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Best method to stream multimedia content from Linux to iPhone/iPod/iPad?
I recently set up a Linux server to play around with an host all my media. What is the best method to allow streaming of that content to an iPhone/iPod/iPad?
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I want to serve media across my LAN via HTTP with a nice interface
I've got a huge digital video library and a ton of devices I use to watch content. I want to be able to stream content from my library to my devices, and generally the easiest mechanism I've found is ...
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What is the fastest way to rip DVDs to my PC?
I have quite a slow PC with only 2GB of RAM, Intel Pentium Dual Core 2GHz, Windows 7. I'm using the latest version of handbrake to try and rip a 2 and a half hour DVD but it says it will take 11 ...
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Windows 7 Media Player not playing MP3 files from USB drive
I have Windows 7.
I plug in a USB stick containing MP3 files
I open Windows Media Player and select the drive letter of my USB stick, I then see all my music nicely grouped into artist and album ...
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Rosegarden don't work
I recently installed Rosegarden. When it had ran for the first time, it worked excellent. After, I had to restart my computer and when I ran it for the second time, something strange was occurred: ...
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How to automate the process of organizing audio files on Windows
My library is a mess and manually organizing it in Windows Explorer is painful.
I know MediaMonkey Gold provides tools to automatically organize your library folders, however are there any ...
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Media Encoder w\ Merge Files & SandyBridge Hardware Encoding Support
So i have a Z68 chipset that allows Quick Sync encoding on my i7 processor.
I want a media encoder that supports both Hardware encoding and allows me to "merge files".
My problem is Fraps breaks my ...
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Autoplay not working
The auto play on my DVD drives suddenly stopped working for some reason. Even with store-bought DVDs it does not work, although I can watch movies quite successfully if I run Windows Media Player and ...
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Windows: downloading of a wmv file (is it stream)?
Win7/x64.
I saw a website that containing a report.
http://www.dunatv.hu/gazdasag/varga_istvan_szerint_milliardok_hianyoznak.html
It is uses Windows Media Player plugin that I installed under ...
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Stream media to remote client (native desktop client, web, anything is fine)
There is a server (Intel Atom dual-core CPU with Windows XP installed on it). The 'server' got a huge bandwidth, which I could easily use to stream media to my home PC where I have a simple ADSL ...
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Update music files with track information in Windows Media Player [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Auto Music Tagging Software
Is there some way I can get WMP to retrieve track information from its internet sources and update tracks in my CD rips? I have several where ...
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Can I activate Windows XP Pro installed from Retail (or VL) media with OEM key?
I have Windows XP Professional OEM key on the sticker on the computer, but I don't have a OEM media to perform reinstall. I could obtain (it doesn't matter how) an installation ISO images from MSDN ...
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Ultimate low-footprint music player for Mac OSX?
My Mac at work has 2GB of RAM total, and I'm constantly using enough middleweight programs simultaneously that I wind up in Rainbow Circle Hell.
I've been using Songbird, but it frequently runs into ...
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What is naming convention for subtitle files?
I use VLC that automatically opens subtitles with same name as movie:
Movie: [Name].avi
Sutitles: [Name].srt
But i wonder how should i name subtitles if i have more than one.
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Corruption-resistant file system that works across Windows and OSX?
I'm planning to build an external RAID-based media drive, and I'd like to use it across both my Windows and OSX machines. exFAT works for both operating systems, but from what I've heard, it's much ...
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Do NAS extension bays over eSata slow down transfer speed
I am considering getting a NAS for home use (file hosting & media hosting (1080p) to ~ 3 devices simultaneously). I would like to set up 4 drives with RAID 0+1 and am wondering whether to buy a 4 ...
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What are the best x86 motherboard form-factors and chips for building power efficient systems [closed]
EDIT - To make the question more generic and less like a shopping question
What are the best x86 motherboard form-factors and chips for building small power efficient Windows systems?
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Linux CLI tool or script library to query media files properties?
Does anyone know of a tool that would allow me to get the properties of any media file, in a parseable way? Something similar to what ImageMagick's "identify" does for images:
$ identify libre.jpg
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Windows Media Center won't Play MSN Video Player
My install of Windows Media Center won't play MSN Video Player videos. They appear in the main guide, but when I click on them, nothing happens.
If I look on the main menu, I don't have any icons for ...
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Windows Media Center crashes when viewing Pictures
My install of Windows Media Center crashes whenever I select 'Pictures' from the main menu. I see the pictures screen appear briefly before WMC crashes.
I'm running WMC on a Windows 7 64-bit machine ...
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How to play security cam records
I have a security video records on my computer. And try to play them, I almost tried all possible alternative players. The file extensions are exp and h264, some errors I have received could not ...
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VLC crashes while playing RMVB?
VLC Media Player 1.1.9 and also other versions, crash while playing RMVB video files and when ever i try to forward the video to some point. Other times the video gets stuck.Can anyone explain me the ...
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Sound Un Available For RMVB files?
Sound is unavailable for all RMVB files on Media Player Classic Build 1.5.2.3447
and after Installing K-Lite Media Codec Pack 750.
The Sound button greyed out , Rest all media formats work well and ...
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VLC media player can't play an internet radio stream, but firefox and Window Media Player can
I am trying to connect to this online radio station (it is in Thai) using VLC:
http://www2.mcot.net/radio/fm_1005.asx
For some reason, when I connect using Firefox or IE (IE just dumps me over to ...
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Is There IP Address File Resolver Plugin For Firefox And Chrome?
Let me explain. When i right click on image, i see its size and other properties, however i would also want to see on which host it is located. It would be nice to have such plugin for Firefox and ...
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disable 'play' key on media keyboard opening files in windows media player
Okay, this is admittedly a little obscure.
I have a standard Microsoft keyboard that includes 'media' keys - play/pause and volume adjust / mute. If Windows Media Player is open, pressing these keys ...
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/srv/mm/Music (etc) Twonky won't scan here for media
Is there something special about /srv/mm/ that Twonky server refuses to scan there?
I previously had my system set up with all my Music, Video and Photo folders in /srv/mm... shared by Samba, ...
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Robust file copy application
I'm trying to recover music from some pretty scratched CD's and DVD's, in both CD audio and MP3 format. Windows copy is not my friend here, because often the read process will hang indefinitely, so I ...
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Graphical annotation with media metadata?
Is there a tool that allows graphical annotation of media data (e.g. JPEG images) where the annotation is embedded into the media data's meta data?
For instance, I would like to point out, i.e. ...
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Is there a way to browse a media server (MediaTomb) with a media player (VLC)?
I currently have an EEE PC set up with LinuxMint as my media server using MediaTomb.
I use VLC as my media player on another Windows computer to watch videos off the media server. It works fine, but ...
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How to move videos to specific folders one by one with media player?
I need to rearrange video folder which has hundreds of videos. I'm searching a media player that lets you to organize videos in playlist?
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Dedicate 5.2 GHz to video streaming
I have a cisco e4200 router capable of running 5.2 and 2.4 GHz simultaneously. On a windows 7 machine, I have a cisco wusn600n wireless adapter. From the windows 7 machine, I stream full hd videos to ...
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Hide Media Device from Network
On my network at work, my laptop shows up as a Media Device with my pc username next to it. How do I hide this from them?
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Looking for Video Player with “delete from disk” Shortkey
I'm using KMplayer with this option, but I am looking for alternatives, and it's the only one I know with this feature.
I am not talking about just removing a file from the playlist, but the physical ...
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Connect Ubuntu 11.04 to xbox 360
I'd like to be able to stream .avi files to my xbox 360 video library. I've gone through a bunch of different servers (ushare, xbmc) both from the aptitude and from source. It seems that I can get ...
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Controlling multiple screens from Ubuntu 10.04 with many cores
I'm running x64 Ubuntu 10.04, desktop edition. I've got 2 big graphics cards that handle 2 HDMI ports each. I've got 6 cores on processor as well.
I want to be able to show a different movie on each ...
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Command line media catalog for some backup dvds - is there such a thing?
I'm looking for a command line application (really simple, that uses only text files for storage) that can catalog my backup dvds. Something similar to WhereIsIt, but using command line.
Suppose I ...
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How to watch cell phone videos on Linux (3gp, mov)
I'm probably missing something obvious, but I have huge trouble watching .3gp videos (taken with my Android phone) or .mov videos (my friends send me from their iOS devices) on Linux. I'm running ...
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How do I get the best picture out of a PC and LCD TV combination?
I have a Sony KDL 32V5500 LCD television with HDMI, Component, USB and Scart (RGB) inputs (it's 1080p). I want to use this either as a monitor, or a TV showing internet TV (BBC iPlayer etc), driven ...
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What's the latest solution to home media serving? [closed]
I'd like to be able to run certain network services as well as stream to an Xbox 360 with something like tversity. I want the media server to be as small as possible, and a mac mini almost fits the ...
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Best video format for Windows and Mac Compatibility?
I'm about to encode several videos that will physically distributed to clients running either Windows XP (and upwards) or OS X.
Is there a compressed format that would be playable on both platforms ...
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How to read available audio tracks in a video file?
Some video files contain multiple audio tracks. Multiple languages for example. Is there a command line tool which gets information about these audio tracks? Names of the audio tracks would be ...
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My keyboard has no “media” keys, can I control media without them?
My USB keyboard does not have "media" keys -- that is, dedicated keys for play, stop, next, prev, volume up/down, etcetera.
For the sake of this question, I would prefer not to install additional ...
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Where does content distribution network come into picture for youtube
I have vaguely heard of CDNs (Content Distribution Network) and I suppose they come into picture in context of multimedia(audio/video) online sites like youtube. My question is what really are these ...
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I've Ripped my DVDs (Movies/TV Shows), Now How do I Manage Them?
I've been ripping my DVDs (main movie or episodes to MP4) to my Windows Home Server for streaming to my HTPC, and now that I have a decent amount stored I need good a way to manage them. I would ...
