Questions about video editing, streaming, conversion, capturing or video output. Use a more specific tag if possible.
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In which format to store home made videos
TL;DR: my home videos are taking up too much space and are impractical to backup on Dropbox. Which format do you advice to convert them to?
Long version:
One year ago I bought a new compact camera ...
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generating video slideshow with avconv but maintaining image ratio
This may have already been answered.. but I'm struggling to search for it!
I have a set of images, of varying dimensions that I've created a 'fade affect' with, using imagemagicks convert command.
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AVCONV errors while grabbing af stream from an IPCAM
When im trying to grab a stream from my D-Link DSC-932L Cam, using avconv, I keep getting errors.
Depending of framerate etc. the proces will terminate whitin a minute.
Here is the string and common ...
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Roommate lagging internet connection by watching videos from Chinese website. Can QoS fix issue?
My roommate is an international student from China and likes to watch Chinese TV shows online using a website based in that region (we're on the U.S. East Coast). But it causes our network's latency ...
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How to create a multiple audio MKV from an AVI and a MP3 using FFMPEG
I have a AVI movie and a second audio in a MP3 file and want to create a third file in MKV with the original audio from AVI and a secondary audio from the MP3. Is it possible to do with FFMPEG? I've ...
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.MTS file player?
I've been searching, and I can't find a good .mts video file player. The first search on google leads to such a player, but it doesn't work properly (at least for me- the sound goes on, while instead ...
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Playing separate videos on different monitors on linux?
I'm building a system for a friend's work that has four different videos playing on a loop on different monitors in the business. I've currently set up a Ubuntu 12.04 box with a Radeon HD7850 and am ...
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ffmpeg and matching encoding options
I have two mp4 files captured from different android devices. the ffmpeg output of each file is listed below. Can i re-encode two.mp4 so that the encoding options are the same as one.mp4? I cant see ...
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Media Center MKV files & Non-Admin Users
Our Media PC has 2 accounts.
Admin
Viewer
I've got kids, and if I let the kids watch shows, they are bad about deleting shows from our media library by accident.
So, the Viewer account is given ...
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Video recording from a webcam [closed]
I need to record video from my webcam. I found the one solution in youtube that provides some tools for this matter, but it doesn't give a good quality of video. So maybe there're some better tools I ...
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How to use Darwin streaming server to stream over the internet?
How do you use Darwin streaming server to stream over the internet? I can only get it to stream over my home network with rtsp://{my ip adress}/sample_300kbit.mp4.
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Why scrolling in Unity is faster than in Xmonad?
I noticed that when I use default Ubuntu's Unity, everything scrolls fast and smooth. By "everything" I mean web-browsers and vim in terminal when I browse source code.
When I use xmonad it seems to ...
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Can't copy video from DVD
I have a video in a .MOD file format burned to a DVD. The video appears to play fine from Windows Media Player and others. When attempting to copy the video file off of the DVD, windows explorer ...
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What happens if I have two integrated video cards? [closed]
I'm thinking about building a computer for my parents. Since they don't play video games I thought I'd get them a motherboard/cpu with an integrated video card. The motherboard I'm looking at is an ...
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iMac won't recognise .MTS videos on my hard drive, how can I play them?
We just purchased an iMac yesterday to view our travel videos. The thing is, all the videos we have stored on our external Hard Drive are in the .MTS file format (AVCHD). The thing is, the Mac or ...
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Which is better between a .flv and a .mp4 video files with same encoding?
There is a server from which I can download videos, and I can choose if I want .flv or .mp4.
The encoding is the same:
-> FLV
Flash Video
1 video stream: 640*360 (16:9), at 25,000 fps, AVC ...
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ffmpeg support for tx3g
I am trying to embed subtitles in an MP4 contrainer using ffmpeg.
I am using the following command:
ffmpeg -i input.MOV -i input.srt -map 0 -map 1 -c copy -c:s mov_text output.MOV
I would like the ...
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Most videos are almost all white except FLV and rmvb on Ubuntu
Suddenly all my videos become white (sometimes I see other colors but they are whitened) when view in both totem and VLC, but except flv files and rmvb. I also have few mp4 files with small resulution ...
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Linux - Cut video from end position
I have been looking at different video cutting command line tools for Linux and I can't seem to find any which supports the operation of cutting a video from the end.
For example, i have 10 videos ...
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Using FFMPEG to add subtitles to a M4v video file
I am having troubles adding subtitles to a video file using ffmpeg.
I am using this command:
ffmpeg -i movie_input.m4v -newsubtitle subtitles.srt -acodec copy -vcodec copy movie_output.m4v
I found ...
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What model of video card does a GeForce GT 620 qualify as?
I recently got a new computer with a GeForce GT 620 video card and I'm trying to determine which games it will run. Specifically "Aliens: Colonial Marines". There's a page with a drop down menu that ...
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Mosaic from MJPEG sources in VLC
I'm trying to set up a Mosaic stream from multiple MJPEG sources and output it as yet another MJPEG. The matrix wizard in the web interface is either broken or just unclear, and the Mosaic tutorial on ...
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Use 3 monitors with ATI Radeon HD 3450 (3400 series)
I have the ATI Radeon HD 3450 (3400 series) graphics card and I have 2 monitors hooked up but I wanted to see if/how I can set up 3 monitors using this card.
Preferrably with no extra hardware, but ...
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Can I reduce loss of quality when streching a video? (Sony Vegas)
I have some very low resolution footage (256x192, 4:3). I stretch it using pan/crop but I keep the aspect ratio. The end result is a 1280x720 with that footage in the middle and personalized side bars ...
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Creating video from DNG images with FFmpeg
I'm trying to make a video from TIFF images that are DNG pictures. The problem is that the resulting video that FFmpeg creates, have a resolution lower than the original pictures
I tried with image2 ...
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Creating a movie from pdf images
I have a bunch of pdf files, from which I want to produce a movie.
I'm using sips (on Mac OS) to convert the pdfs to .png, and then produce the movie with ffmpeg.
So far, I'm doing this:
for i in ...
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Is it possible to “forward” a video feed from a monitor to a tv over hdmi?
I have a monitor that has both a vga and hdmi input. I am wondering if I can use the HDMI to mirror the input from the VGA to a secondary tv. Is such a thing possible?
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Blurry Video on TV when going through Desktop GPU
Ok so I have a Samsung 46 in led with a Native resolution of 1920x1080
this one for reference:
http://www.samsung.com/us/video/tvs/UN46EH6000FXZA
I also have it connected to my Desktop (with a 570gtx ...
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Tool for audio video synchronization using e.g. scene detection [closed]
I would like to analyze video files to detect scene changes in order to assist the synchronization of audio and video tracks. Ideally, video and audio waveform are displayed for easy alignment of the ...
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A way to capture error output from ffmpeg/avconv in a bash script
I am trying to batch convert a bunch of files and i am doing an simple listing of the converted files to a text document so that i can stop the script and continue from approximately were i started.
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Thumbnails for video files are not showing in Windows 7
When I open my video folder, the thumbnails aren't showing. Instead, the default VLC icon was being displayed. Other files and image thumbnails are being displayed properly, only the videos have ...
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What's the most useful Linux file system for storing videos?
I'm looking for a file system suited for my storage task, which is to store between 300 and 400 gigs of media data, i.e. video, sound and pictures.
The data will be stored on a non-SSD drive which ...
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Why is Xbox Video app unable to play AVI files?
On my Windows 8 Pro system, Windows Media Player is able to play some AVI video files. It means that required codecs to play those files are installed in the system.
Then, why is Xbox Video (Metro ...
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Why do I get a 403 error in Firefox but not in IE?
Going to http://teamtreehouse.com/ in IE 9.0.8112 the video on the right comes up and shows the still image. You click the image, and it plays fine.
I have Firefox 18.0.1 as my primary browser. When ...
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Crop video to custom resolution
I'm just looking for a simple application (preferably free but not necessarily) that allows me to crop a video to a custom resolution; obviously smaller than the original resolution. The application ...
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Webcam Issues (I cant take videos in any way, shape, or form)
I recently got an HP Envy m6 with windows 8, and I love it but it has one really annoying problem. It cant take videos... at all. I contacted support and they didn't really do anything. It still takes ...
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How to tell video frame number in VLC?
I am running VLC 2.0.5 on Mac OS X 10.6.8. At this moment, I have a *.mpg video paused, and I would like to know the frame number for this moment in the video. Is there a way to reveal that in VLC?
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Use a video as an overlay on another video from command line?
MEncoder/FFmpeg can overlay a video with an image from the command line. Is this possible with a video?
I want to overlay a video with another dynamic video. Some parts of the overlayed video must be ...
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convert gif to mp4 (gif2mp4) [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I convert an animated GIF to a YouTube friendly video format?
The question is pretty straight-forward:
How to convert animated gif file to mp4 video?
It might ...
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how to reduce h264 annex B NAL unit sizes to avoid IP fragmentation?
I'm trying to stream a video over to a terminal using RTP. The video is coded in h.246. I'm using ffmpeg to extract the byte stream according to h.264 annex B :
ffmpeg -i test.h264 -vcodec copy -vbsf ...
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Matroska vs. Quicktime container? [closed]
I have a 90TB master files (Videos) and I want to archive them for a very long time.
I know Matroska is an open source and QuickTime is from Apple. Matroska has a lot of features and QuickTime ...
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Append JPG to MPG Video ffmpeg/mencoder
I've found a lot of solutions for creating a video from a folder of jpgs, in this case a time lapse stream of photos from a camera. Thats easy, but seems to waste a lot of computing power ...
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Storage location of video tags in Windows Live Photo Gallery
I know that Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011 stores people tags and other metadata like ratings in the photos themselves (see a very similar question about photos here).
I'd like to know if the ...
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How to make Firefox and Chromium play video in tab instead of downloading?
I am wondering is there special plugin needed? For chrome it is fine as the video immediately play inside the tab (streaming) instead of asking me to download it.
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Download videos from Delve Player
I am trying to download a video from this website.
I am using Firefox and I have tried using many types of downloaders, but they only get the player and other shockwave components instead of the ...
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Lossless compression codec for looped image sequence
I've got 14 PNG images (here but not important) that I want to put into a 2 minute loop at 15 fps.
Photoshop CS3 seemed the best tool for this so I opened them as an image sequence* and did File -> ...
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YouTube doesn't work when embedded in site [closed]
Video doesn't begin in YouTube window when it is embedded in other site, but when I click Watch on YouTube button on that window, same video works ok in youtube.com. How to fix it? I use Google ...
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Repairing corrupt MP4
I took a video from my Android phone (Sony Xperia P, if you need to know), and before I could stop recording it, the phone memory got full and the phone got hanged too. I rebooted the phone, the video ...
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Cannot stream video to tv
I can stream photos & music to my TV from laptop but video will not work.
I was just wondering if anyone could tell me why or how to make it work. I'm using Windows 7.
I have direct TV which ...
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Watching 2 videos at the same time by splitting into audio channels
I'm trying to watch 2 Youtube videos at once on Windows 7 using a headphone by directing the audio from the 2 videos into 2 different ears. I.e. the audio from one video only uses the left channel, ...
