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Can I stream Amazon Prime Video movies on a Fedora laptop?
When I try to play Amazon Prime videos on my Fedora laptop, they never start. Instead, the screen gets stuck on a loading animation (spinning circle) indefinitely. How can I fix this? Is there a step-...
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How to enable H264 for Firefox?
I noticed that AlmaLinux 8.10 lacks the packages mozilla-openh264 and it's prerequisite openh264, and that both are absent from official repositories too. To my knowledge, I need these both in order ...
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How do I resolve this GStreamer codec update fault?
I recently installed KUbuntu on a Lenovo Ideapad laptop. It's functioning fine aside from a problem that came up with a recent update—after updating all packages, three remained: GStreamer Multimedia ...
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Unable to play "mp4" video downloaded from security camera NVR
I have a HeimVision security system and I tried downloading videos into my debian system for analysis. Edit: I uploaded the file online: I tried playing this with VLC, but no video is displayed, only ...
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two modules for WM8962
As can be seen on https://www.kernelconfig.io/search?q=wm8962&kernelversion=4.19.165&arch=arm64 there are seemingly two different kernel modules for the audio codec WM8962 and they have ...
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openshot and ffmpeg get confused with an mts file with multiple audio
I used to cut recordings from my satelite receiver (mts files with one video and multiple audio streams) with openshot, but I have a problem since upgrading from good old debian jessie to buster: ...
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How to convert/understand video files with ffmpeg
background I have a bunch of video files that I would like to play on my roku through it's "Roku Media Player." However many of them simply do not appear in the list of available videos on ...
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H265 - a codec only for powerfull computers?
I have converted a video of mine with ffmpeg into H265 codec. Great: Much smaller at the same quality. But then I noticed the video is blocky. I thought there was an error during re-coding. But no: I ...
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