Questions tagged [media]
Media is sound, video, pictures, and anything else you see or hear in an electronic format. This tag is for questions pertaining to media.
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The longer I leave my computer on, the more dropped frames I get when playing media
I'm on Ubuntu 22.04.5. I've noticed that the longer I leave my computer on, the more dropped frames I get when playing media. I've tested in both MPV and VLC, and the problem persists, however it's ...
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Update Dolphin in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS KDE Versions to newer version 25.x.x?
I'm using Ubuntu Studio 24.04 LTS (Long Time Support ...)
Since I had problems with the Dolphin filemanager on my NAS drives, I've tried to find a solution. I've got all my media files on NAS (video, ...
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Ubuntu 25.10 - Intel Alder Lake iGPU - No HDMI audio output - Internal speaker works
I have an Intel i3-12100 Dell OptiPlex XE4 and am using Ubuntu 25.10 because I wanted HDR compatibility with my TV for an HTPC box.
Starting from a fresh installation I can see the audio devices out ...
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trying to use ubuntu as a multi server computer
i want to have 2 game server auto run without login and have any media on the computer to be shared to all devices at home. can anyone help me in a way. i have tried using the autostart program but ...
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Pause all media players in Linux via script
How can I use the shell to pause all media players on my system like browsers playing youtube, the spotify app and so on?
I am using Ubuntu 22.04, but a more generic solution would be preferred.
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Plex Server on Ubuntu Desktop can't find my internal hard drives
I'm new to Linux - years of history with Mac OS. However, I've just successfully built a modest home media server, and have Ubuntu Cinnamon up and running. I loaded 'Jellyfin', and struggled for a ...
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How can I download the ubuntu-restricted-extras media codec install files in a zip type archive?
I have a Dell Tower PC that I installed Ubuntu 24.04 LTS on but unfortunately there is no internet at this rural location, except for my mobile cell phone hotspot at that location. I downloaded the ...
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struct media_pipeline *pipe; removed from struct media_entity in 6.1.55 kernel soruce code
Compiling my video drivers generate the following error:
xilinx-dma.h:51: return container_of(e->pipe, struct xvip_pipeline, pipe);
Found that the following line is removed from the struct ...
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Media Keys no longer working with snap apps after upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04
I want media keys to work on all apps. I am not looking into not using Snap versions of firefox, etc. I prefer the Snap versions. I want media keys to work on all media regardless.
Playing videos on ...
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Media Keys work on VLC but not on Chrome Browsers
My media keys (including Previous, Play/Pause, Next) work great in VLC under Kubuntu 24.04.1. I can load up an album and everything just works.
However, once I fire up a Youtube playlist in Chrome the ...
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kubuntu mounting partitions not in fstab
Kubuntu is mounting some partitions in media/myhomedirname/ which are not in fstab. Ive used gparted to unmount them but on restarting , they have all reappeared. How can I prevent this from happening ...
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Permissions issues in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
Ubuntu noob here,
Was messing around with permissions and external disk mounting options and I think I made a mistake with the permissions. Now I can't install updates and the gnome-desktop won't ...
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Ubuntu bluetooth auto pause on XM4 not worikg
There is a feature in the WH-1000XM4 that the current media playing automatically pauses if you remove the headset (read the full description on Sony's website):
When you listen to music while ...
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Installed libre office from snap, need to grant removable media access
It seems if you install application from snap they are sandboxed from removable drives.
How do I grant removable media access to all libre office applications?
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/dev/sda2 4TB hardware isn't writeable
My work environment is Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS.
My path to /media/yueli/Data directory is a 4TB hardware mounted at /dev/sda2. It isn't writable.
Data:
4TB:
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