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Questions tagged [video]

related or about the video issues, the range varies from playing a video file, the formats, tools to work with it in *nix operatin systems up to issues surrounding it in specific environment (ie. console, framebuffer, X11 ...)

Video is an electronic medium for the recording, copying and broadcasting of moving visual images.
Video tag related or about the video issues, the range varies from playing a video file, the formats, tools to work with it in *nix operatin systems and the handling of a video file by *nix operation system up to issues surrounding it in specific environment (ie. console, framebuffer, X11 ...)

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How can I reverse a video clip?

My OS is Debian 8. I have a file named clip01.mp4 that I would like to reverse, so it plays backwards. Audio can be discarded or reversed as well, doesn't matter. Apparently ffmpeg is deprecated in favor of avconv, but I can't seem to find a…
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How can I list the available video modes for my screen?

On Windows computers, there is a simple "hide the modes this screen does not support" button. How can I get the available video modes supported (accepted) by my actually connected screen via Linux command line? I.e: I would like to answer to this…
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How can I download a video from an M3U8 file?

I have an M3U8 file saved locally. How can I download the video from this file?
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How can I screencast purely from the tty?

How can I do a screencast (having a video file out from my screen output) without X server? I mean, purely from the tty, no KDE, no LXDE, no Xorg beneath them. Like if I were in single-user mode.
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Is there a video player for Linux that has thumbnail previews?

When watching videos on Youtube some of them display thumbnail previews when the mouse if hovered along them time line? The picture below shows the thumbnail of the video at 3:31. Some Windows video players have them as seen in the answers for this…
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Viewing a screencast encoded with camtasia

I have downloaded the screencast on this page, http://jaderholm.com/screencasts/org-mode/. I can watch in firefox but the viewer has limited controls. So I would rather watch it on a regular video application. The thing is I've tried everything…
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find original video if you have a short clip from it

I while back I wrote a paper with simulations, and to illustrate some points, I made a few cuts from chosen from long videos of the simulation running. Unfortunately, I absolutely forgot to record which part of which video I used. Since I don't…
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I can't use ANY Linux distribution because of my graphic card

I have a problem. On my computer I have an ATI 6800 Series and every time I try to install ANY Linux distribution I get a black screen or a white screen or sometimes i only see half of the wallpaper. Of course this has to do with my video card. How…
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Linux showing incorrect file modified time for camera video

I recorded a video with my camera and when I open the directory containing the video files, the modified time is always wrong. Here is a screenshot from the video clearly showing the correct time and date as provided by the camera in the bottom…
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HDCP Software Implementation

How to do software implementation of HDCP for Linux ?
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Is it possible to open a webpage which displays live video in full screen from terminal?

(Working on an RPi) I would like to open a webpage which is displaying live video content in full screen from terminal. By this, I don't mean having the web page itself open in full screen, but rather the video content. Currently my script…
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How to capture video and audio from /dev/videoX?

I have connected a Pinnacle Dazzle to my Fedora workstation and the system has correctly identified it and created /dev/video2 and an audio device (that I see in my audio settings). I want to use this to capture some old VHS tapes and I can use…
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Learning Unix with video lessons

Is there any web site where I can learn Linux or Unix with video lessons? Of course, there should be many of them, but I think there is one most popular like, let's say, Coursera.
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