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How to uninstall the default Videos application - Freya
To uninstall the default videos application (audience) run the following in a terminal.
sudo apt remove audience
Remember to mark as answer if it works
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Is there a way to change aspect ratio when playing videos in Videos (Audience) player?
vlc allows you to cycle between different aspect ratios using the a key or the menu Video->Aspect Ratio
mpv allows to cycle between different aspect ratios with a key set in ~/.mpv/input.conf. To ...
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How to play a DVD on Loki?
Since Ubuntu 15.10, libdvdcss (the package required for CSS decryption) is installed as part of the libdvd-pkg package, with no additional steps required.
sudo apt install libdvd-pkg
The default ...
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How to find out what codec is used in a video
This is not a complete GUI information, but the next solution to it, I think. On Github there are contracts among other for video and audio information: Create a file in /usr/share/contractor
Open ...
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Is there a way to increase Videos (Audience) sound volume more than 100%?
It's not possible to do it.
Anyway, when you set your VLC volume over 100% that will also create distortion, so you will get the same effect if you set the general volume a little over 100%.
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My OS is displaying this image, I do not know what it is ... someone could explain
You can install the icon for Dropbox manually. Check here
Make sure you have git installed via
sudo apt install git
then execute
git clone https://github.com/zant95/elementary-dropbox /tmp/...
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Why is videos color scheme different
To expand on Peter's answer, many GTK+ themes (elementary included) have a dark variant which can be enabled for any GTK+ application by setting Gtk.Settings.get_default ()....
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Instability in full screen videos ElementaryOs 5
Check my answer here
https://elementaryos.stackexchange.com/a/16901/14940
Is only a bypass but still a way to see fullscreen videos while isn't fixed
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Video on Chrome freezing
It's a known issue that no one has figured out a good solution for yet:
https://github.com/elementary/os/issues/121
Please use the thumbs up instead of adding comments that you also have the issue, ...
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Unable to fullscreen video on second monitor
The same happen to me since Juno, with Loki I could without issue. Now is not possible to upscale any video content
The only way to bypass it is to maximize it/go fullscreen on the main display and ...
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Video app is not working on 6.1
I had the same issue. Elementary OS Videos couldn't play videos. I tried to debug the reason and launched via terminal:
flatpack run io.elementary.video
But there was no error in the terminal.
I ...
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Video app is not working on 6.1
the two commands above:
flatpak install io.elementary.video and
flatpak install --system freedesktop org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default//20.08
doesn't work for me...
So I uninstalled the video from ...
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What program to use to download videos with Elementary OS
There is an app called "Video Downloader", it's pretty simple.
https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.github.unrud.VideoDownloader
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Native videos app can't play some type of videos
VLC uses libav (also backend to ffmpeg), which can decode just about any type of digital audio or video format.
I think Videos is using gstreamer, which needs individual codecs to handle each format. ...
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Protected Blu-Ray playback in elementary OS
you need to install VLC Library know as libdvdcss to breaks the encryption, you can see the full answer here.
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Video execution lag
First
Let's check if you have Nvidia drivers installed
Install:
$ sudo apt install software-properties-gtk software-properties-common
Open:
$ software-properties-gtk
Choose the tab Additional ...
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Funky playback with Videos
I had the same issue; after a lot of digging around, it turned out to be related to the the gstreamer1.0-vaapi package. Removing that package fixed the issue for me.
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kdenlive video editor won't start
The only way I have managed to run kdenlive is by an appimage. Works like a charm. This is what I recommend.
https://kdenlive.org/download/
Latest stable AppImage (17.12.0) is available here:
https:/...
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Glitches on streamed videos
After some extened research and trials I managed to find a almost perfect fix.
Edit:
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
and add:
Option "TearFree" "true"
It will looks like something like this:
Section "...
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Overheating of the system in video viewing
Open a terminal and execute sudo apt install tlp. That's going to install TLP, a tool that helps with the overheating and powersavings on laptops. You should also update your video drivers with sudo ...
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Overheating of the system in video viewing
the first thing i would do is clean the fan from any dust. get compressed air in a can or via a compressor. unplug power cable and battery. then spray in the fan holes from the buttom to the exit of ...
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Video tearing and stutter - Help with drivers?
There are many suggestions online and I'm sure you've already seen many of them, but most are either impractical (modifying Chrome paramaters, only to have them reset by an update) or even, in my ...
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Need a simple solution for video podcasting
You can install OBS Studio using:
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:obsproject/obs-studio
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install obs-studio
Version: 0.15.2
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Subtitle not shown in Videos
That has nothing to do with your graphics card. Are you sure the file you are trying to play has subtitles? Or are you trying to open a subtitle file?
Also, if you have your graphics drivers ...
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I cannot play a DVD in any video player
I have had troubles with the videos app as well. You could open it by starting it from the terminal with:
audience
Then copy and paste the output of the command here to give us more info.
You could ...
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Is there a way to change aspect ratio when playing videos in Videos (Audience) player?
Okay, at the risk of being considered rude, I need to ask why coderMess decided to not answer the user's question, but instead offer up advice on using another piece of software.
Sure, you can use ...
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How can i play .MTS videos in elementary OS?
Try installing Ubuntu Restricted Extras:
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
Cheers!
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