Anything related to playing videos on your computer.
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Red5 video playback is not working
This problem has been recurrent and seems to show bugs in red5. We're using red5 as the video server. We had a problem with the video file only containing part of what was recorder, but found it was ...
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3D Side By Side player - with usable controls when in 3D mode? [closed]
I have a Windows 7 computer connected via HDMI to an LG TV. I am able to play side by side format videos in players such as VLC, which I will play full screen and then manually set my TV to play 3D ...
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How can I watch an Infrared movie in normal color
I run Win7 HP. I have a WMV video, shot in infrared mode. The video has some greenish-gray color. The video looks like as in the image below;
But I want to watch the video in normal color format. ...
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Play 4 videos at once
For a number of reasons not worth saying I need to play 4 videos at the exactly same time on 4 different screens. I already tried a few softwares like vidlord (that plays 4 videos at the same time but ...
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How to select 1 hour video clip from multiple folders using VLC
I have different collection of video training and I would like to select 1 hour or 30 min video, which can have multiple clips, based on the duration, it may not be exactly 30 min. Is it possible to ...
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How to seek only video with external audio in mplayer?
I have a separate video and audio file. The audio basically would cover only a part of the video. They differ greatly in length with the video being much longer. (My video is several hours long while ...
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HD 1080p .mkv videos don't play smooth. Is it a CPU, GPU, player or OS issue?
I have some .mkv 1080p videos but VLC can't play them smoothly.
If I open the Task Manager, I can see that CPU is at 100%, because VLC uses as much as it can (95% or more).
Then, I wonder
Is it a ...
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Windows 8 Stutters / Lags on Video Playback
Ever Since i switched to Windows 8 i have been facing issues this is one of the most annoying issues i am having
Whenever i play uncompressed files Made from FRAPS / DXTORY the video stutters with ...
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How to reinstate “playback speed” control in WMP?
I've recently reinstalled Windows 7 and been watching movies via out-of-box Windows Media Player (with all out-of-box codecs). In particular, i liked WMP's ability to change playback speed. Recently, ...
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What speed is 'fast' and 'faster' in VLC?
VLC isn't very informative in it's playback speed designations.
Any idea as to which playback speed each adjective refers to?
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Faster video podcast playback in iTunes
Is there a way to play a video podcast in iTunes at 1.5X or 2X speed?
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How to display downloaded youtube annotations ( not captions) on offline video player?
i need to display the annotations for some of my downloaded youtube videos. It's also important to make them closeable. Making them clickable would also be nice.
What i found out so far:
From what ...
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FFmpeg not converting first image [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Ffmpeg sync error, first image showing really fast
I'm using Windows and FFmpeg for Windows.
My material are 8 images, with names like:
product0001img01.png
...
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Proper encoding for long videos from online meetings?
I'm taking responsibility for maintaining a collection of recordings from online meetings, and I'm at a loss to determine which encodings I should use for them. The videos are coming from GoToMeeting, ...
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Play video with slower playback speed on OS X
I have a movie that I shot at 240 frames per second. I'd like to play it back at 24 frames per second on my Mac. How can I do this?
How do I slow down playback to 10% speed for an MP4 file?
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Read ahead buffering while playing video file from optical disc
I was wondering if there is a program for Windows 7 (64-bit), that reads ahead the file to be played back (usually MKV files in my case) to the RAM, so the disc that the video file resides in, won't ...
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Choppy, CPU-intensive Flash video performance in Chrome
Lately, watching Flash video (eg, thedailyshow.com) is terrible in Chrome: the chrome.exe process sits at 49% CPU (dual core obviously) if the tab is open, even when the video is paused. Sound is ...
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How to get smooth GPU accelerated video playback with Subtitles using Media Player Classic
I run Windows 7 x32 in my Dell Studio 1555 laptop having ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4500/5100 Series Graphics card. I have the latest drivers installed, even then, I got some stuttering, when I try to ...
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mjpeg mov created by the newest FFMPEG looks in Windows Media Player like half sized videos
I have new version of FFMPEG installed and created mov compressed with mjpeg. Is looks pretty in Afx, Premiere and QucikTime player but it looks like half-sized video in Windows Media Player. There ...
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How to watch a video in full screen on multiple monitors?
How can I watch a video in full screen on multiple monitors?
I'm using Windows 7 x64 and I can only make it go full screen on one monitor.
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How can I determine if a GPU will play 1080p before purchasing it?
This isn't a "what should I buy" question: I don't care about laptop models or brands. I want to know about hardware capabilities.
Context:
I have a disk array that serves videos to various ...
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Choppy video playback in Windows Media Center when the window is not active
I have always had a minor issue with video playback in Windows Media Center. It is a very minor issue, indeed, but still somewhat annoying. Video playback generally works perfectly, irrespective of ...
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Merging h264/MP4 files with mp4box results in seeking and sync issues
I've a problem while merging two h.264/MP4 files with the same parameters except length.
I'm merging by mp4box -cat .... After that, video players behave strangely:
If I drag time slider closer to ...
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WTV playback speed in Windows Media Center
Windows 7 saves TV recording in .wtv files. These files can be played in fast forward mode (1.5x or so speedup) in Windows Media Center.
Is this mode allowed only for WTV files or is due to codec ...
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AVCHD MTS h264 1080p file with choppy playback in Linux
When I'm trying play video files from my camera:
Seems stream 0 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate: 50.00 (50/1) -> 50.00 (50/1)
Input #0, mpegts, from '00027.MTS':
Duration: ...
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Unable to watch some videos on YouTube
When I try to watch some videos on YouTube, I get the output of the following type:
The behavior persists regardless of the web browser. Is there a solution for this problem?
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Why do my videos not take up the full screen?
I usually just use Windows Media player, though I've tried Zune and VLC to play back video files (mp4, avi). However, most video files do not fully maximize to the screen – rather, it is a slightly ...
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VLC freezes last frame from command line
Suppose I play a video file via VLC from the Windows command line. Are there command line parameters which cause VLC to stop at the last frame and just display it as a fixed image instead of closing ...
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ffmpeg shortening calculated video run time
I have an image sequence of 5,664 .tga images which are to be played at 24fps (so 236 seconds) and an audio ac3 file which I edited to be exactly 236 seconds (plus minus 0.01s) in length.
I used the ...
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Is there an easy way to read Blu-ray discs on Windows?
Some time ago, I bought my parents a computer dedicated to media (mostly photographs and movies through DLNA). My father asked me if he could read Blu-ray discs on it, so I bought a Blu-ray reader, ...
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Can't play 720p mkv video file
I'm having trouble playing a 720p mkv file on my computer. It won't open in Media Player Classic (with K-lite codec pack), or in GOMPlayer, but it does open in VLC. However, in VLC, it seems like it ...
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Automatically playing a DVD movie?
I have set up Autoplay to launch Media Player Upon insertion of a DVD movie in my DVD/CD R/W. I have set all of the defaults for Media Player. It always used to play properly. Now the only way that I ...
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WebM on Mac OS X
What options are there for playing WebM video files on Mac OS X other than VLC? A plugin to Quicktime Player would be perfect.
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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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Playing back HD videos will stutter on PC
I'm using a Canon 600D to shoot HD video at full frames. When i playback on my PC using VLC the video is just about unwatchable - It stutters, lags and the audio is out of sync. However when playing ...
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Is there an equivalent of the “MediaPlayerConnectivity” Firefox extension for Chrome?
The MediaPlayerConnectivity extension allows an easy way to play DivX and other streaming videos in external applications (like VLC).
Is there something like this for Chrome?
I want to play videos ...
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Batch video presenting (playing, pausing, going to specific time, …) in Linux
Is it possible to write an action file (e.g. a script) that plays some video files?
I need it to be programmable to automatically perform these actions:
start from a specific time
play up to a ...
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Is there a video player with speed control that does not affect the audio pitch?
Are there any video players that can let you increase the speed without increasing the pitch and causing the chipmunk effect?
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Which VGA to use for accelerated playback?
I've got 2 VGAs in my laptop. (The question would be too localised, but people often have an Intel integrated card and a similar discrete card. So my guess would be that the question will help others ...
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Is there an MP7 player 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 an MP7 player for Linux, Mac or PC or means of converting it to an MP4, preferably?
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What can I do if I get a movie that is encrypted?
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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Can play but cannot explore/view files on DVD [closed]
I have a DVD. I can play it but cannot explore/view files on it.
Why would that be.. can I investigate it?
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HD movies stutter
I just put together a new system build in the hopes that all of my daily tasks would run smoothly and without any hiccups.
Unfortunately I am still seeing some sound and sometimes video stuttering ...
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Save QuickTime movie trailer files to computer without Pro
Is it true that a few months ago, QuickTime allows users to save the movie trailers without using the Pro version?
Right now, it seems like we need to pay $29.99 to save the movie trailer clip onto ...
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Minimum hardware spec for playing Blu-ray disks
What is the minimum hardware spec for running Blu-ray disks, and uncompressed 1080p video?
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Why do HD movies use up all my RAM?
Whenever I play HD movies on my computer (720 and up), after about 15 minutes or so it starts lagging horribly and I realize (via Samurize) that I have < 1% RAM free. However, when I open up the ...
