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Could exiting the media player without stopping/closing the file cause damage?
Just what the title says really.
A multimedia file (movie/audio-cd/whatever) may be stopped by simply exiting the media player (windows media player/vlc/Qt/...) instead of going through the whole ...
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What is faster for multimedia performance? Leaving a NIC to do checksums or the CPU?
I noticed a NIC from Realtek has an option to "offload" some of the CPU work for checksums onto itself. However, this has some - I would say - humorous effects on opinions of people on the web: Some ...
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How to stream the PC desktop to a phone with VLC?
I got this famous handy VLC player. I want to stream my PC screen over RTSP to my phone.
Here are the details:
My PC is connected to a DSL router via ethernet LAN cable, which has a built-in WiFi ...
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What DBus signals do I send to players to imitate Gnome's multimedia shortcuts?
I have Xubuntu 11.10, XFCE. I want to send DBus signals to the players so that they worked like in Gnome: you press 'play' key, it plays, 'next' - it forwards, and so on.
For that, I need to bind to ...
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Looking for software to mix up photo slideshows with up to two tracks of audio/include text, etc
I've been messing around with Picasa and PowerPoint to create brief, 1-4 minute slideshows with text slides, images, and a music background.
I'd like to take that one small step forward and have two ...
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Where is synchronization information stored in container formats?
Multiple audio streams, video streams and subtitles are stored in one container. These are played back together.
Where is the synchronization information stored in the container format? In meta-data ...
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How to control media player while playing a game with Logitech Keyboard?
Hey I've been trying to play games and play music in the background.
I have a multimedia player keyboard from Logitech. When you press <FN> on the keyboard, you can press buttons <F1> to ...
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How to combine H.264 and AMR into a streamable media format?
I know MP4 format support combining H.264 and AMR into one file. But MP4 file is not stream-able , because MP4 decoder need index data seeked from MP4 file.
I want to combine h.264 + AMR into a ...
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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 can I enable multimedia keys of an Apple keyboard under Windows?
I am using Windows XP, with an Apple aluminum keyboard (the full one). It has multimedia keys at the top, and those work just great under Linux, regardless of the multimedia player I use. But I can't ...
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Streaming solution for video and audio
I have some usb disks attached to my home-made router (ArchLinux) and I'm wondering what I could use to stream both different video and audio, to different nodes within the LAN, at the same time, from ...
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I'm done with Microsoft PowerPoint, what to do now? alternatives? [closed]
Possible Duplicates:
Microsoft Office alternative for Windows?
Free or open source software for slide presentation?
So, that's pretty much it, I don't want to use PowerPoint any more, I'm ...
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My Multimedia Drive was Removed While in Use [closed]
iOmega screensplay director was removed while in use and not getting detected again.
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Multimedia streaming box with internal storage (built-in or can be added) [closed]
I know there are many media players around but I don't know which one would suit my requirements and frankly I rather ask existing users about their experience than reading pages and pages of flashy ...
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How to get the OS to recognize the extra keys on my keyboard
I have an old Dell USB keyboard (model RT7D10) and it has multimedia keys (volume control, next/prev track keys, etc...). I connected the keyboard to my laptop and it works fine, but the OS does ...
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How can you create CDs with media that cannot be copied? [closed]
There are quite a few tutorials available on CDs/DVDs these days. When I try to copy the content on my hard disk, I just can't copy it. The CDs work correctly if I try to use AutoPlay option from the ...
