Questions tagged [media]
Questions related to storage media on which data can be stored such as hard disks, floppy disks, CD-ROMs, and tapes. It can also used for questions about multimedia files, for example, combine sound, pictures, and videos, all of which are different types of media.
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How to stop FFmpeg from doing anything with the supplied video, other than dumping metadata?
I'm using ffmpeg to extract the embedded thumbnail from a video:
ffmpeg -dump_attachment:t cover.webp -i video.mkv
The problem is, that ffmpeg complains that at least one output file must be ...
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Windows Explorer: change default columns of the media-variant set of columns (photos, videos...)
When a folder contains photos and videos, explorer switches automatically which columns are displayed. I'm not questioning here whether I like the feature or not, so let's assume I liked that feature.
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Unable to connect to route Gateway?
A previous router which I used for a long time it's WiFi died; only the WiFi. Therefore I had to replace the router. I have a network and only one of the computer can recognize the router, meanwhile ...
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Shortcut to seek backward/forward in currently active media player on Mac
I'd like to create a shortcut to seek backward or forward (5s) in the currently active media player on my mac, that will work even if the application that is currently playing audio is not focused.
I ...
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What is a container?
There is a lot of jargon around the word container. From AVI or M4A being a container to PE being a container format as noted in this comment.
It is important to understand that PE is just a ...
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ffmpeg cut, fade and concat causes the video to get stuck
I'm trying to add "fade out" effect to a long video. One method I explored is cutting video at the end before few seconds, adding the fade out effect to the second split and concat both the ...
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VLC on Chromebook doesn't recognises any media files
In order to try and fix a wee issue my partner was having with
VLC on Chromebook, I uninstalled and reinstalled it (after the usual clearing the cache etc. to try and fix it) but now it doesn't ...
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Cannot pause using media keys while casting
Using Chrome (108.0.5359.125) on Windows 11 (10.0.22621).
When I play YouTube video normally I can use media keys to play/pause/next/etc. to control that video.
But when I am casting video to external ...
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How can I put Media Player Classic only in full screen, without a toggle?
There's a few options in Media Player Classic to set it on full screen, you can typically press Alt+Enter or F, but both of those options will toggle it so if it's playing in full screen already, it ...
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How do I read/write to this storage media?
I am using a card reader to connect the USB storage media, and I am sure that it works and has data on it. The media came with a retro-gaming device, it has old MAME games, etc. on it.
But Mac tells ...
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How to copy audio & video streams without re-encoding in GStreamer?
In ffmpeg you can use "-c:a copy -c:v copy" to copy audio & video streams without re-encoding the output file, this is the way if you want to make little details in shorter time, like ...
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Find and open limited number of files across several external hard drives
I have 11 external hard drives containing thousands of videos. In my lobby I need to select a random 100 or so to open and play so that a new set is playing every day. I have used programs like Find ...
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Silencing or pausing Windows media when Android Google Assistant is triggered
I hope this this in scope, as the rules ban questions related to "cell phones or smart phones, except insofar as they interface with your computer"
On Android, media is silenced when Google ...
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How can I provide a photo or video when a webpage requests access to camera? [duplicate]
I am curious if there is an extension or something for Firefox, Chrome, or any other browser, which would allow me to pick a photo or video instead of really turning on the camera, when browser ...
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Batch script to move video files to folder based on WidthxHeight
I'm currently trying to code a batch script that will move certain video files (mainly .mp4's) to a new sub-folder based on Width and Height to make encoding faster by cutting out the manual labor of ...
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Win10 Explorer Dimension Column Blank
Just noticed that my explorer in Windows 10 doesn't show the dimensions of my images or videos anymore.
Explorer Example:
I remember having the Width, Height and Dimension columns working before but ...
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how to watch a movie from remote server (I have full access to) using VLC player on Win 10 pc?
How to watch a movie from remote server (I have full access to) using VLC player on Win 10 pc?
The files are uploaded into /home/****/movies/ and have permissions set like this: ?rwxrwxr--.
???@ubuntu:...
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How can I remap a generic USB foot switch?
I bought a USB foot switch that "works", but only as the button "enter". I tried to remap it the whole morning, but Windows is determined to only recognize it as enter, without ...
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How can .m3u8 and .ts streams or videos properly be saved, without any pixelated or corrupted frames? VLC or FFMPEG, or anything else
I was wondering how to save contents of .m3u8, generally any that works, using VLC at "Open Network Stream".
I saw that these files often contain .ts files, that are named "playlist&...
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Is YouTube a good way to store personal videos on the long run?
I used to have my pics and videos stored on two hard drives as well as Google Photos. However, I'm reaching the end of my allocated space. My dad told me "the solution is simple, the videos are ...
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Disable Media Control Overlay in Firefox 89.0.1 *Without* Disabling Hardware Media Control (Windows 10)
Toggling media.hardwaremediakeys.enabled disables the actual hardware media control option.
I would like to be able to control media outputted by Firefox from my keyboard, but without getting that ...
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Windows 10 media keys affect multiple apps at the same time
I have a problem on my desktop Windows 10 computer where the keyboard media keys affect every media application simultaneously. If there are for example multiple media players plus youtube in a ...
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Command-line tool to add a cover picture to mp3 / m4a files (Windows 10)
I'm using Windows 10 (which complicates things).
So I have a bunch of music files and associated cover picture in the form of "x.m4a" and "x.jpg". I would like to associate them.
A ...
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Windows 10 installation issue
I want to do clean install using windows media creation tool but after
Getting files ready for the installation it need restart but after that it goes to the selecting language again keeps looping?
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Restore headphone pause/play button iTunes opening settings from launchctl?
I think I used the terminal line command from this page a while back because iTunes opens when you press the pause button on your headphones on macOS
launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/...
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Can I disable Windows 10's media preview on volume change?
When I change volume using the keyboard I get the volume slide (which is nice), but on it's right there's a preview with controls. Half the time this is unrelated to what I'm doing (e.g. I'm on VLC ...
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Is there a way to get the Mac media buttons (previous, play/pause, next) behavior on Windows?
I was wondering if there was a way to imitate a Macbook's media buttons (see image below) on a Windows PC and subsequent keyboard. I've fallen in love with the Mac's media buttons and would love to ...
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Firefox stopped playing media in the background [closed]
Till the last update (79.0.5), media used to play in the background even if the browser is minimized (navigate to other apps), or android on sleep (press power button, screen off). But after the ...
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Windows 10 installation media on two different USB sticks
I have created two installation USB sticks for Windows 10. I used Media Creation Tool for that purpose.
I noticed that the total amount of used space is different on those two sticks. The sticks are ...
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What's a good way to batch check media files for integrity?
I have some 15000 image, video and audio files (and also a few others) that I have been bouncing back and forth via FTP from my phone. After so many times, I found out that a few of them were ...
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Media keys to control only iTunes in windows 10
I have a Logitech MX Master mouse and have assigned media commands (play/pause, next, previous...etc) to the buttons of the mouse.
However, any time iTunes is not the window in focus, I can't use ...
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How can I copy all OPEN VLC media files into a directory?
Sometimes I'll open six or more random video files using VLC media player. These videos reside in various directories on my hard drive. Is there some way to copy all of these OPEN videos into a new ...
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Same Album Art on All Tracks
I have an issue with WMP12 in Windows 10. One particular album cover shows up on ALL the tracks I have in my Music folder. I've searched the Net for solutions, tried them ALL, with no success. I know ...
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SSD no media on Windows 10
I have an SSD 1Tb drive in an external enclosure. When plugging it in on a Windows 10 USB port, it shows a 'no media' error. If I install the SSD internally it works fine.
Tried on various machine ...
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FFMPEG video doesn't work on mobile and social media
So we are creating short videos from image sequences. The videos work on computer but on mobile they don't play, on instagram we can't upload, on WhatsApp it doesn't show thumbnails.
Here is our code:...
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ffmpeg - Encode audio as list of samples
I would like to produce a numeric list of amplitudes from an audio file. I should be able to:
Specify the sampling rate (16kHz, 44.1kHz, etc)
Specify the data type of the amplitude samples (8 bit ...
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PDF Media Upload with Wordpress
I have a WP installation on IIS that won't let me upload a PDF to the media section, but it has the following weirdness:
I can upload a smaller PDF (~22KB)
Can't upload the larger one (~4.2MB), even ...
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Advanced photo and video import tool for Windows
I'm looking for a Windows-based tool that can reliably import a large collection of photos and videos. Windows Photo Import isn't up to the job - it keeps crashing.
I have a library of 1.7 million ...
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could not enter folder /media/myuser/partitionname
My laptop has two hard drives: an SSD and an HDD. I put the root partition on the SSD and divided the HDD to two partitions, one for /home and the other contains my personal data.
After installing ...
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Convert mp4 to mp3 with ffmpeg
I want to convert a whole folder of mp4 files to mp3. But I have no idea how to do that? But I want to keep the thumbnail. Can anyone help me?
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How can I make a file date modified static (not changeable)?
I want to sort the songs in my phone by date.
The sort option that's available in my phone is on picture.. But the file modified time gets changed when i copy the songs to my phone and in the ...
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MediaInfo's 'Overall bit rate' vs 'Maximum Overall bit rate'
I'm comparing duplicate media files using MediaInfo, so that I can keep the one with the best quality and delete the other one. However, I'm confused by some of the information.
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How to play YouTube videos with MPV subtitles?
How to play YouTube video with MPV with subtitles?
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Cannot render STL (3D file) in web browser, where it worked before
I have been using this 3D rendering of the ISS for months now for a project. All of the sudden it doesn't work. It looks like it's going to load, the progress bar starts moving but only gets to ...
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How to disable Suggested Folders on Windows 10?
Windows 10 scans the disk to find folders containing music, pictures or videos in order to generate a list of "suggested folders" for the Photos, Groove and Movies & TV apps. A quick internet ...
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NAS frozen when Media Server enabled. Normal or not?
I have a Network Attached Storage (NAS), with 8TB of storage. Currently 4TB in use. It's a Lenovo, model IX4-300D.
Having recently bought a smart TV, I became aware that I could use the TV to ...
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How to use playerctl with mpd to control music with the media keys for mpd and other players
I used to have my media keys bound to prev/next/pause with i3 like so
bindsym XF86AudioPrev exec --no-startup-id mpc prev
But I wanted to also use other players so I set it to
bindsym ...
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Windows default media icon
Windows 7 upwards (I think) uses a built-in set of default icons for all media types; images, videos, music, etc. When looking the icons more closely with, for example, FileTypesMan the icon location ...
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Digital preservation in M-Disk: is DVD burner compatible?
I'm planning for the future of my data, and would like to archive a copy or two in M-Disk (among others). Media is so cheap that having 4-5 copies of them is no big deal. Anyway, I wonder whether my ...
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SD Card not accessible with NO MEDIA ERROR [duplicate]
I have a Sandisk 16GB MicroSD card, few days ago, the card suddenly stopped working, and this has happened before, the entire card was formatted or erased by itself back then, I had to reformat it and ...
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