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is it technically possible to make a movie clip that autodustructs when it finishes playing?
Is it technically possible to make autodistructive movie clip? like on the movies :) but in Mission impossible it's the gadget that explodes... I just want to make a little player, which would play ...
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DVD player not reading DVD RW
Okay so what I did is that I erased everything from my DVD RW and burned some movies on it. After doing that I tried to run DVD in my DVD/DiviX player and it said DVD Error. Now my question is, why? ...
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Can I watch 3D movies on my computer just using 3D glasses and my normal monitor?
Can I watch 3D movies on my computer just using 3D glasses and my normal monitor or do I need a special monitor to see 3D?
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In need of a movie library application
I'm looking for a (hopefully) open-source movie library/database application to be able to navigate my 2000+ movie collection (all in digital files, ripped from owned DVDs). My platform is Linux (so ...
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Desktop w/Blu-Ray in one room, DLNA-compatible TV in another — streaming?
My TV supports DLNA streaming. I have a Blu-Ray drive in my desktop computer and I'd like to stream Blu-Ray movies directly to my TV. Is this even possible, and if so, does any Blu-Ray software ...
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How can I have support in Hebrew and russian subtitles at the same time?
When I try to watch movies with russian subs I get gibberish (with hebrew characters).
I found that I can change the system non-english support language (something like that) and then it will support ...
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Create movies from images and sound files scripting transitions using Linux console?
I need a Linux command-line program that can:
Accept some kind of scripting language capable of transitions (fade, scale...)
Generate movie files like AVI, MKV etc from images like JPG, PNG, and ...
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How to create a batch file to add metadata to movies and rename them
I want to create a batch file that does the following:
Scan a folder's contents including subfolders for movie media
Parse from the file name, the movie name and the year, since I am using ...
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Playing Blu-ray movie as a restricted user
I'm using Windows Server 2008r2 with CyberLink PowerDVD 11 Ultra. When loged in as Administrator I am able to play Blu-ray films however, as a restricted user Power DVD gives the error:
There is a ...
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Legal way to get movies/shows onto a non-networked computer
I have some relatively young children and when I got a faster computer, I gave them my old one. For the moment, I am keeping that computer entirely off network, but I would like to be able to put a ...
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How to change which frame is grabbed for the finder icon of a movie file for Mac OS X Finder?
Movie files show in Mac OS X Finder with an example frame from the movie. Unfortunately, it's captured from fairly early in the movie, so that different episodes of a series, or perhaps different ...
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Is there any software that tags movie metadata automatically?
I'm familiar with using MusicBrainz for MP3's. Is there an equivalent program that exists for videos files?
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Hearing weird stuff when watching movies
I'm trying to watch a VOB movie, and I hear 2 sound tracks, one of the movie (low) and a second one that has nothing to do with the movie, I've had this in the past with several movies, it's just a ...
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ffmpeg - convert MOV to AVI but decrease frame rate
I have several videos that are filmed with a portable camera and saved in .MOV. Since these are videos of university lectures and have video of the boardwork done by the professor, I would like to ...
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How can I extract stills from a movie?
I would like to make a flipbook from a movie I made on my Mac. Is there any software that will extract, say 100 representative frames from 2 minutes of motion, or do I need to make screenshots ...
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Can't download Apple movie trailers under Linux anymore [closed]
I did a web search on how to download Apple movie trailers under Linux and got some answers.
All of them suggested to use the following command:
wget -U QuickTime/7.6.2 ...
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What are the iTunes Media Files extensions?
I have some content that I didn't purchase from iTunes but never the less want to use them with iTunes
Stuff i don't know the extension for:
Movies
TV Shows
Music Videos
Audio Books
Stuff i know how ...
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Is BRRip/BDRip true HD? [closed]
I never understood what is the difference between BRRip & BDRip?
BRRip / BDRip video files is HD (or true HD)?
Why some BRRip/BDRip legal videos have different resolutions, for example:
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Simple animation creation software
I am looking to produce a simple animation video (mp4, flv etc).
I have a picture which I will edit in MS Paint, and from which I will produce an animation sequence. What software can I use to ...
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Is there any way to mix and display 2 subtitles (2 different languages) line by line?
I need to read 2 subtitles with 2 different languages. I'd like to have them displayed line by line like this clip : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7Tg6dU_MYo
I need one line English and one line ...
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Visualizing Parallel Branch and Bound Tree Exploration
I have written a parallel program that does a depth first branch and bound exploration of a tree. I can dump the id's (id's are like this 0, 00, 01, 0000, 0001, etc.) of the nodes at frequent ...
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How can I split a large video files?
I have a TV set that allows me to plug in a USB hard drive and will play movies in it. It supports a surprisingly wide range of codecs, but as I learned yesterday (the ugly way), while it'll play ...
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Will the new Google Chrome book be able to play movies from USB [closed]
I'm thinking about buying a Chrome Book for my Dad. Auto update OS, no viruses (yet), so no more computer question right... Any way he works in a place near the end of the earth and they don't have ...
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Is it possible to show the subtitle in an AVI movie?
Is it possible to show the subtitle in an AVI movie ?
Note: I don't want to add the subtitle to the movie, I just want to show them from a downloaded file.
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Removing black frames from movies with untypical aspect ratio
Hi
I am currently editing videos with untypical aspect ratio (in Adobe Premiere Pro) and putting them into a powerpoint presentation. However, when I do that, large black frames appear and surround ...
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Is there a good program to generate gifs from a wmv file?
I want to generate gif files from wmv movie files. I am hoping that it can generate from a given section in the movie file with options of how many images are in the gif. Can you help me?
This is for ...
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How to cut a few seconds out of movie file?
I have a lot of movies that have only a few seconds of interesting material. I would like to write some script to do it (batch script?).
what kind of tool has a good command line interface to do ...
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Windows commandline program to encode AVI to XVID
I'm looking commandline tool (preferably with no installation) which allows me to encode AVI to XVID (or MPEG4)
I know some solution at Linux but count find same on Windows (XP)
Can you advice ...
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Need MP7 player and/or some means of converting it?
I just got a video from a friend and he sent it in the file format of "mp7" does anyone know a good free MP7 player for Linux Mac or PC (I have a triple-boot setup) or a means of converting it to an ...
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Lossless compression for movie iso files?
What is the most efficient compression format for iso files created from DVD movies? I wouldn't mind compressing them one at a time or a whole group of them, whatever would save me the most space on ...
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Convert compressed swf to avi (or mpeg etc) via command-line
ffmpeg -i compressed.swf out.avi
gives the error
[swf @ 0x10180b000]Compressed SWF format not supported
so I tried
swfcombine -d compressed.swf -o decompressed.swf
ffmpeg -i decompressed.swf ...
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Web based open source movie index software?
Looking for software I can host locally, can be php or .net, but it should run under IIS. Be able to allow a few people to login and download some movies in my collection.
Would be nice to have the ...
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How can a trimmed avi file be three times larger than the original
I opened up a avi file in virtualdub and trimmed the clip and clicked "Save as avi" and it saved the trimmed clip but it was 3 times the size of the original clip. How can that be?
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After Effects Export Compression
I have an After Effects project for school, and I've created a movie using JPEG sequences (10 @ ~100-200mb/each ). I have the output setting on the composition set to 640x480. I resized each JPEG ...
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Which player can play custom sound track for a movie?
I have a movie in avi format and its sound part in ac3 format. Which player can play my 'custom' sound with a movie?
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How do I copy only certain parts of a DVD and burn them to a different DVD?
I have DVDs (movies and TV shows, that is) that I would like to backup for my own use but I'm not sure how to go about doing that. I've been using DVD Decrypter to get the files from the DVDs but my ...
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What software besides PowerPoint can put all the pictures together into one movie and play them as one motion picture?
I have a lot of jpg files that are all just like film frames of one motion film, so I want to connect them together into one movie - is there any software besides PowerPoint that can make it?
If you ...
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Creating a Movie (or SlideShow) with some Music
Need your advice please :)
I want to create a movie or slide show of some pictures and while playing the slide show or that movie I would like to embed few music files.
For example I could then burn ...
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Does exist an MKV meta tag / metadata editor?
I'm looking for an MKV meta tag editor, I'm using PLEX Media Server and PLEX Media Center on my iMac to see movies.
PLEX is great because it automatically find and name all my movie library with year, ...
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English Subtitle database [or another spoken English text collection] - where to download?
I study linguistics and I need a large collection of spoken English texts.
I can download subtitles one by one [from one of the subtitle sites] manually [it would take months], but is there a way to ...
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Encryption of a movie file
I have a movie and it is not working on KMP.
This message appears on the screen:
the video is encrypted please download codec
How can I handle this?
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How to add “chapters” or “bookmarks” to movies?
Is there an easy way to add chapters to existing movie files?
Note:
Actually, I’m not 100% sure if they’re called “chapters” in video files, but it’s the same concept as DVDs.
I assume this differs ...
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Program to show two subtitle languages at one time
Do you know any movie program or VLC plugin to show 2 subtitles at one time?
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DVD issue. Can play but cannot explore/view files
I have a DVD issue. I can play it but cannot explore/view files on it.
Why would that be.. can I investigate it?
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software to auto-populate movie files with metadata? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there any software that tags movie metadata automatically?
I'm looking for something that can autopopulate meta-data for movie files similar to how MediaMonkey (or ...
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How to identify if a video is 720p or 1080p?
How can I accomplish this under Windows? Can I use VLC to gather this sort of information?
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How do I automatically rename and move movies?
I'm looking for some software which will take a video file, work out the correct name of the film, rename it and then move it to another drive on my computer inside a folder with the same name. So for ...
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Flash CS4 export movie with nested movie clips
I want to export a Flash document to an AVI for import into Sony Vegas with nested movie clips playing as well (as they do in SWF). The export function doesn't seem to be capable of nested clips.
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How to fix blinking subs
Is there any software that can be used to fix blinking subs?
Its just okay when I watch it on my computer but when I convert it and then watch it on other devices, the subtitles are gone.
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CDN for full movie streaming [closed]
What is the best CDN solution for streaming trailers and full sized movies in HD?
I am developing a website where its possible to watch trailers and movies for free. My main visitors will come from ...
