Questions about video editing, streaming, conversion, capturing or video output. Use a more specific tag if possible.
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Recommendations for hosting large videos
I recently created and put a 45-minute, 300 MB video file on my website and told a mailing list about it. Checking my site stats, I see that I've used 20% of my "unlimited" bandwidth for the month. ...
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How can I create a video clip from segments of an existing AVI file?
I have a .avi file but I only want to play part of it (the first 20 seconds, and the segment between the 120th second and the 150th second). How can I generate a new file with just those parts of the ...
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How to create a movie from several .bmp-files under Linux?
I have generated 90 .bmp files and now would like to generate a 3 second video with 30 frames per second from this. Preferrably in the .mov format, but any common format would be ok. Is there any ...
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What are the differences between the various video formats?
MP4, WMV, AVI, OGG, etc. What are the differences between them, how supported are they in different platforms, and what are the advantages of each one?
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Drop every even or odd frames using FFmpeg?
Is there an accurate way to take raw video and extract from it a new video that contains only odd frames or even frames (by choice)?
For example:
I have "blah.yuv" with 400 frames (0-399).
I want to ...
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Multiple Monitors on One Screen
Does anyone know of any software/hardware configuration that will allow you to preview/view the contents multiple monitors on one monitor? Let's pretend:
I have two monitors hooked up to one pc, ...
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Do you need a video card if you don't game or play with graphics?
I'm putting together a new machine and was wondering if I should pay the extra money to get a dedicated video card or just get a motherboard with on-board video...
The machine will primarily be used ...
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Integrated video card not detected after installing new video card
I got this emachines ET1331G-03W with a built in integrated video card (GeForce 6150SE). I added another video card (e-GeForece 6200 LE) in the hopes that I utilize both and have a dual monitor. But ...
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Rotate a 3gp video file 90 degrees using ubuntu and free tools
I want to use ubuntu and preferably standard packages such as ffmpeg to rotate a 3gp video by 90 degrees in any direction. Preferably a command line or python script.
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Tool like Media File Segmenter for Linux
I'm looking for a tool for Linux which can segment a video file into multiple small .ts files.
I know one for Mac OS X called Media File Segmenter which is a simple command line tool - I'm looking ...
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How to strip audio streams from an MKV file?
I've been trying to remove unneeded audio streams from an MKV (Matroska) file. The reason why I want to do this is to avoid having to manually select the wanted stream in Windows Media Player.
The ...
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how to get a printscreen of a video-still in windows?
Winxp running wmp in IE
Neither Printscreen nor Gadwin are capable of capturing the image
I can only assume that is is something to do with how the memory is captured/stored for video vs normal apps
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How do I determine the amount of memory I should have on my next video card?
I have a dual monitor setup with both monitors in the 1600x1200 range and am running Windows 7. I don't do PC gaming, but do non-professional video editing (and viewing single-monitor full-screen ...
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How to find video files with a certain framewidth
I have the following problem: a large collection of video files of all sorts of formats with very different framewidths and frameheights on several hard drives.
I want to search for all video files ...
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How to play 24 fps video smoothly on a 60Hz display?
I use mpc-hc to play videos on Win7 x64. With the default settings (#1), video playback is great most of the time. But for panning shots, playback is not smooth. I stepped through the video frame by ...
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Is there a way to restore video quality
I have downloaded a few videos from the web, and overall they have a pretty good quality. But there are a lot of broken pieces in the video's and I am wondering if I can restore them back to the ...
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Scratch disks on solid state drives
For something like Final Cut Pro where you have scratch disks, is it absolutely a bad idea to use a solid state drive? There would be a lot of writing, but I'm thinking it would be less for video ...
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Find all videos less than x seconds in length
I have a directory (F:\video) with many subdirectories containing various .mp4 videos. Is there any way I can get a list of all the videos less than 15 seconds long? Preferably using the standard ...
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Accurately cut video files from command line
I'm having trouble finding a cli application that can take a video file (avi, mkv, and mp4 preferably) and cut out very short clips (2-6 seconds) with precision time accuracy. I've tried ffmpeg, ...
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How do applications (and OS) handle very big files?
For instance, I have video file which is 11.8 Gb, but my RAM memory only 2 Gb. How does VLC (or other software) handle it? How do they load it into memory? I used VMMap tool (from sysinternals) to ...
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How can I normalize the volume of a single video file?
I have a video file that was recorded from TV. During recording, we changed the volume levels in between multiple times.
Is it possible to (approximately) normalize the volume of the video track? ...
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How to use audio card to decode video? (How this video output is called?)
My digital camera is shipped with this cable to connect it to TV:
When I connect it with that cable to laptop:
I hear audio output on left channel and "hear" video on right channel:
What ...
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Free OS X software to rotate video by 90 degrees
I took an AVCHD video in portrait mode but it plays in landscape on my computer. I want to convert it to .mp4 format so am looking for either AVCHD rotation or MP4 rotation by 90 degrees.
Any ...
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Free animation software? (replacement for Flash MX)
a few years ago, I use to love to make animations with Flash MX. Well, now I have the itch to make some animations but I no longer use Windows(now use OpenBSD) and also I've lost my copy of Flash ...
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VLC + Windows 7 = Pixelated playback?
I'm running a freshly installed Windows 7 Professional (not RC or beta, and not illegal stuff). I installed my usual software, and I was surprised to see that VLC video playback is pixelated when ...
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How do I find out why Windows Media Center won't play a movie?
I have a very very old movie (The Thing from Another Planet) that I have saved in AVI format. It plays perfectly through Windows Media Player.
When I select it through the Pictures and Videos in ...
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Are there any simple video cropping applications?
I need simple (free) video editing application to crop video and to compress cropped video sample. Output format is not that important, as long as keeps good quality and small file size.
CW: Please ...
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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 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 a quality difference between YouTube videos on Chrome vs. Firefox?
YouTube videos played back in Chrome seem not as sharp as compared to Firefox (on Windows XP).
Is this just my imagination or is there a technical reason for this?
It seems like Firefox spawns a ...
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How do I repair a broken .mov (QuickTime) file?
I have a video file (.mov > QuickTime) which was recorded with a VHoldr ContourHD camera.
One of the problems with this camera is that when the battery dies, it doesn't terminate the video file ...
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Where can Firefox store cached flash (.flv) video files?
I am willing to save an online flash video (.flv) file for further offline watching. I couldn't download this particular video file through a direct link (grabbed with Video Download Helper extension) ...
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Why does the quality of this video suck when converted with ffmpeg as opposed to mencoder?
Here's the command line that I'm using for both and the output. Any ideas? The bitrate of the two videos is comparable: both around 1500Kbps.
ffmpeg command:
ffmpeg -y -i aud.mp4 -acodec copy -i ...
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How can I rip a DVD but merge/join episodes
Some background.
I have the Pink Panther Collection, they have about 30 episodes on each DVD.
Now I want to watch this on my $MobileDevice. So I went and converted it to both m4v and avi. This of ...
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How to play two or more videos side by side in a syncronized fashion in Linux?
I have two (or more) video files that I want to play side by side. I could do that simply by opening them in two seperate windows, but that would also seperate all the controls ...
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What is the video format to use for archiving videos for long term storage? [closed]
I want to store some videos for long term. But I'm not sure what is the most compatible video format. I don't want to wake up one day in the future when computers use some totally different ...
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Downloading flash movies from any source!
i was wondering if its possible? There are many extensions to firefox which help you to download vides from e.g; youtube etc but there are many websites which offer video training tutorials etc e.g; ...
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what the best simple video editing program? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is the easiest video editing program to use on Windows
hi,
i want to edit videos, i'm looking for a good, premiere like software.
but it seems premiere it self is ...
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FFmpeg - unable to play stream
I used the following command to attempt to stream from a file with ffmpeg:
ffmpeg -re -i GunGrave\ -\ 03\ -\ Rain.webm -c copy -f asf rtmp://127.0.0.1:8090/test.asf
This produced the following ...
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Using two different video cards in the same pc?
I know that I can use two cards together if they are the same model, and I can put them in sli mode. But can I use two cards that are not the same model (Not in sli), I have a geforce 7300gt and a ...
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Go frame-by-frame through a movie with a precise timer
I have a video I made for physics class, which I intend to use to measure just how long an event took to take place. I can find the start frame and end frame easily using VLC's frame-by-frame feature.
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How to play video at the same time on separate computers
Is there any easy way for two or more people to watch a video together on different computers, so that play/pause is synchronized?
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How can I organize my video collection and update meta data?
I have a large collection of downloaded video files containing different movies, tv shows and music videos. I have a FreeNAS box set up that uses Fuppes as a UPnP media server. My media player on ...
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How can I broadcast video live (preferably wirelessly)?
Update
I've gotten plenty of feedback on the software solutions and the unanimous solution for having a handheld device to record video seems to be to use a mobile phone (I was hoping there'd be some ...
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NVIDIA secondary display problem on Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
All of this was working fine on Windows XP Professional SP3. I just installed Windows 7 Professional 64-bit and it doesn't work anymore.
My video card is an NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT. I have a plain old ...
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Avoid stutter on PC when switching on/off HDMI-connected TV
My media center is connected to my TV by HDMI. When the TV is powered on or off the audio & video stutters for a second or so, presumably due to some EDID processing or something - not life ...
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How can I change my Mac screen resolution without scaling to fit my monitor?
I know how to change my screen resolution, but I'm looking for a way to display a 1280 × 786 region in the centre of my display, without it being stretched to fit my 27" monitor!
My goal to record ...
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Is it possible to power off a PCIe video card/slot? (eg. hot-plug)
I'm looking at building a system that supports VT-d so I can pass through a high powered loud video card to a Xen/KVM/whatever VM (host will be Linux based). However, when I'm not using the VM I want ...
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Using ffmpeg to encode a raw video to H.264 format
On a Ubuntu 10.04, I am trying to encode a raw video (YUV format) to a H.264 encoded video using below ffmpeg commands:
ffmpeg -i input .mp4 output.h264
but I get an error saying
Unsupported ...
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Can you use the Sandy Bridge H67 IGP and an additional graphics card to drive 2 monitors via DisplayPort?
I'm going to build a new pc. I want it to be connected to my two monitors via DisplayPort because the other ports on the monitors are already in use by another computer.
I'm thinking about going with ...
