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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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Arch Linux - unable to play videos in AOM-AV1 codec
I noticed that VLC could not display the sound of videos that used AOMedia's AV1 codec, or AOM-AV1 in short. When I tried to play videos in that specific codec, I could only hear the sound of the ...
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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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Support for h264 codec, Open Suse
14:37 boffi@localhost:~ $ mpv Inaugurazione\ Cortile.mp4 (+) Video --vid=1 (*) (h264 1920x1080 30.000fps) (+) Audio --aid=1 --alang=eng (*) (aac 2ch 48000Hz) [ffmpeg/video] libopenh264: libopenh264....
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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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How do transform mp4 videos so that they can be read by Davinci Resolve on Linux?
Resolve is a commercial video editor with a free version that can be run on linux. On the linux version, some videos in mp4 format will have no video content when they are imported. This is ...
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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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What are the advantages of using an audio codec with mainline Linux support? [closed]
I am a hardware designer who is working on a custom processor circuit board with audio support. Our intention is to have the processor running some flavor of Linux and interface with the audio chip ...
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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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Recursive (batch) video codec details with MediaInfo CLI
I want to share my script to do this with Media Info CLI and python. At first I tried with pure bash but should have just gone python at first, much quicker and adaptable (for me). My task was to ...
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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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Netflix and Linux and VM
I heard that Netflix needs PlayReady 3.0, Widevine, HEVC 10 bits de/encoder, HDCP 2.2... to play 4K/UHD contents So I want to know if Linux support these technologies, and if Netflix support those ...
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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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Why does Linux use non-free codecs and why are codecs needed at all? [closed]
Say a song is recorded somewhere on the planet with a computer, and that stream of data is stored. If this is stored using Audacity, you can set it to .aup format, which is a very simple XML file. Why ...
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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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