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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Best method to stream multimedia content from Linux to iPhone/iPod/iPad?
I recently set up a Linux server to play around with an host all my media. What is the best method to allow streaming of that content to an iPhone/iPod/iPad?
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I want to serve media across my LAN via HTTP with a nice interface
I've got a huge digital video library and a ton of devices I use to watch content. I want to be able to stream content from my library to my devices, and generally the easiest mechanism I've found is ...
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Media Encoder w\ Merge Files & SandyBridge Hardware Encoding Support
So i have a Z68 chipset that allows Quick Sync encoding on my i7 processor.
I want a media encoder that supports both Hardware encoding and allows me to "merge files".
My problem is Fraps breaks my ...
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Windows: downloading of a wmv file (is it stream)?
Win7/x64.
I saw a website that containing a report.
http://www.dunatv.hu/gazdasag/varga_istvan_szerint_milliardok_hianyoznak.html
It is uses Windows Media Player plugin that I installed under ...
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Stream media to remote client (native desktop client, web, anything is fine)
There is a server (Intel Atom dual-core CPU with Windows XP installed on it). The 'server' got a huge bandwidth, which I could easily use to stream media to my home PC where I have a simple ADSL ...
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Update music files with track information in Windows Media Player [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Auto Music Tagging Software
Is there some way I can get WMP to retrieve track information from its internet sources and update tracks in my CD rips? I have several where the ...
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Ultimate low-footprint music player for Mac OSX? [closed]
My Mac at work has 2GB of RAM total, and I'm constantly using enough middleweight programs simultaneously that I wind up in Rainbow Circle Hell.
I've been using Songbird, but it frequently runs into ...
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What is naming convention for subtitle files?
I use VLC that automatically opens subtitles with same name as movie:
Movie: [Name].avi
Sutitles: [Name].srt
But i wonder how should i name subtitles if i have more than one.
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Corruption-resistant file system that works across Windows and OSX?
I'm planning to build an external RAID-based media drive, and I'd like to use it across both my Windows and OSX machines. exFAT works for both operating systems, but from what I've heard, it's much ...
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Do NAS extension bays over eSata slow down transfer speed
I am considering getting a NAS for home use (file hosting & media hosting (1080p) to ~ 3 devices simultaneously). I would like to set up 4 drives with RAID 0+1 and am wondering whether to buy a 4 ...
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Linux CLI tool or script library to query media files properties?
Does anyone know of a tool that would allow me to get the properties of any media file, in a parseable way? Something similar to what ImageMagick's "identify" does for images:
$ identify libre.jpg
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Windows Media Center won't Play MSN Video Player
My install of Windows Media Center won't play MSN Video Player videos. They appear in the main guide, but when I click on them, nothing happens.
If I look on the main menu, I don't have any icons for ...
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How to play security cam records
I have a security video records on my computer. And try to play them, I almost tried all possible alternative players. The file extensions are exp and h264, some errors I have received could not ...
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VLC media player can't play an internet radio stream, but firefox and Window Media Player can
I am trying to connect to this online radio station (it is in Thai) using VLC:
http://www2.mcot.net/radio/fm_1005.asx
For some reason, when I connect using Firefox or IE (IE just dumps me over to ...
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Is There IP Address File Resolver Plugin For Firefox And Chrome?
Let me explain. When i right click on image, i see its size and other properties, however i would also want to see on which host it is located. It would be nice to have such plugin for Firefox and ...
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/srv/mm/Music (etc) Twonky won't scan here for media
Is there something special about /srv/mm/ that Twonky server refuses to scan there?
I previously had my system set up with all my Music, Video and Photo folders in /srv/mm shared by Samba, miniDLNA ...
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Robust file copy application
I'm trying to recover music from some pretty scratched CD's and DVD's, in both CD audio and MP3 format. Windows copy is not my friend here, because often the read process will hang indefinitely, so I ...
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Graphical annotation with media metadata?
Is there a tool that allows graphical annotation of media data (e.g. JPEG images) where the annotation is embedded into the media data's meta data?
For instance, I would like to point out, i.e. ...
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Is there a way to browse a media server (MediaTomb) with a media player (VLC)?
I currently have an EEE PC set up with LinuxMint as my media server using MediaTomb.
I use VLC as my media player on another Windows computer to watch videos off the media server. It works fine, but ...
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How to move videos to specific folders one by one with media player?
I need to rearrange video folder which has hundreds of videos. I'm searching a media player that lets you to organize videos in playlist?
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Dedicate 5.2 GHz to video streaming
I have a cisco e4200 router capable of running 5.2 and 2.4 GHz simultaneously. On a windows 7 machine, I have a cisco wusn600n wireless adapter. From the windows 7 machine, I stream full hd videos to ...
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Hide Media Device from Network
On my network at work, my laptop shows up as a Media Device with my pc username next to it. How do I hide this from them?
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Connect Ubuntu 11.04 to xbox 360
I'd like to be able to stream .avi files to my xbox 360 video library. I've gone through a bunch of different servers (ushare, xbmc) both from the aptitude and from source. It seems that I can get ...
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Controlling multiple screens from Ubuntu 10.04 with many cores
I'm running x64 Ubuntu 10.04, desktop edition. I've got 2 big graphics cards that handle 2 HDMI ports each. I've got 6 cores on processor as well.
I want to be able to show a different movie on each ...
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Command line media catalog for some backup dvds - is there such a thing?
I'm looking for a command line application (really simple, that uses only text files for storage) that can catalog my backup dvds. Something similar to WhereIsIt, but using command line.
Suppose I ...
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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 do I get the best picture out of a PC and LCD TV combination?
I have a Sony KDL 32V5500 LCD television with HDMI, Component, USB and Scart (RGB) inputs (it's 1080p). I want to use this either as a monitor, or a TV showing internet TV (BBC iPlayer etc), driven ...
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Best video format for Windows and Mac Compatibility?
I'm about to encode several videos that will physically distributed to clients running either Windows XP (and upwards) or OS X.
Is there a compressed format that would be playable on both platforms ...
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How to read available audio tracks in a video file?
Some video files contain multiple audio tracks. Multiple languages for example. Is there a command line tool which gets information about these audio tracks? Names of the audio tracks would be ...
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My keyboard has no "media" keys; can I control media without them?
My USB keyboard does not have "media" keys -- that is, dedicated keys for play, stop, next, prev, volume up/down, etcetera.
For the sake of this question, I would prefer not to install additional ...
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Where does content distribution network come into picture for youtube
I have vaguely heard of CDNs (Content Distribution Network) and I suppose they come into picture in context of multimedia(audio/video) online sites like youtube. My question is what really are these ...
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I've Ripped my DVDs (Movies/TV Shows), Now How do I Manage Them?
I've been ripping my DVDs (main movie or episodes to MP4) to my Windows Home Server for streaming to my HTPC, and now that I have a decent amount stored I need good a way to manage them. I would ...
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Serving Videos via HTTP to my LAN
I've got a number of movies and TV episodes with full metadata on my machine. I want to be able to access these videos from other machines on my network. I've got all the network stuff set up, but I'...
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"Simple" cross-platform way to distribute a collection of MP3 files
I have a collection of MP3 files (an "album" so to speak) that I'd like to share with people. Some of them may not be particularly technologically astute (coming more from an LP background). I've ...
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How do I figure out which applications on my computer is using UPnP broadcasting?
I'm trying to get the media server TVersity to work, but when the service is supposed to start, it gets stuck on "Starting" and NEVER moves on. I've read that TVersity won't work if I've got other ...
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Automatically extract all audio tracks from movie files in OS X or Bash?
I'd like to extract the audio out of any video file (not dvds).
I have easy access to OS X and Bash and I'm very comfortable with both.
Thoughts?
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How to share my media over the internet?
I have a significant media library (video, audio, photos, etc...). It's all sitting on a 2TB external drive connected to a MacMini. The MacMini shares the media to devices within my house via a DLNA ...
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"transparency" against the light is signal of bad quality dvd media?
If you put the media against a (monitor's) light and see the other side, does that means that it's a bad quality dvd media?
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How is the length of media files determined? Do they use tags?
Do all of these media files: .mov, .mpg, .mp4, .ts, and .vob, have a tag that indicates play length? If not all, which ones? And can they be read by any machine?
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media play length
Is one of the defining characteristics of any computer media file that it has a total play length tag embedded somewhere in its encoding? And if so, one that can be read by any machine?
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What is a good layout for a somewhat advanced home network and storage solution? [closed]
My home network/storage needs are changing and I am searching for some opinions and starting points on what a good network/storage layout would be that can serve my needs for a few years into the ...
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Best Floppy Drive for reading old floppies
I have a stack of about 30 floppy disks (3.5" type) that have some old childhood memories on them. However, I'm putting them into my random "cheapo" USB floppy drive and every single one is coming ...
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Music player that can speed up/slow down the music
Is there a music player for Windows that will let me speed up / slow down my songs? I can do it for each song in Audacity, but that's too tedious, I don't want to resample my entire collection to new ...
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ffdshow equivalent for the Mac
When I was still on Windows XP, I used ffdshow to take care of all my video and audio codecs needs (with fully customizable subtitles). I did not need any other video player except Windows Media ...
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How to serve media across home network?
I'm looking to share my media across my home network. Router fully supports running a DLNA server, but I don't know if it'd be better to run the server from my main server computer instead of from the ...
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Why Windows Live Photo Gallery stopped displaying thumbnails, and how to fix it?
I now get this instead, for most (but not all) photos. This is the icon which represents the WLPG application, I think.
Some observations:
I can see the thumbnails fine in Explorer, which is where ...
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Keeping track of files on external media
I would like to be able to see all the files which I have backed up to external media (CD, DVD, external drives). At minimum there should be filename and size, more details like thumbnails and other ...
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Home network setup with Ubuntu + FOSS?
I'm hoping someone can make some suggestions for using Ubuntu & FOSS to meet a few requirements I'm have for my home network.
Currently I have a network containing:
a laptop running Windows XP
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Need to reinstall Windows XP Professional - but no longer have the CD
My laptop has got several problems all pointing to needing a reinstall. Its genuine - and I can extract the key from the registry.
But where can I get a copy of XP Professional to install? A bit ...
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Write a normal DVD from a rip
How could I go about the 'opposite' of ripping a DVD, i.e. given an .avi file, create a DVD that will play in older DVD players, those that don't offer 'naked' file support?
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