Questions tagged [media]
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Media changed: please insert the disk labeled 'Debian GNU/Linux
I installed Debian 7 using a USB flash drive "burned" from the first DVD ISO of the Debian installation CD/DVD.
I did a very minimal install without Debian desktop environment, Print server and Standard system utilities.
After installation and a…
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How to set metadata for music files?
In windows music files have metadata like artist name, album name associated with them. How is this metadata stored. Is it stored in file system like other file attributes or is it part of MP3 data that Windows Explorer extracts using a MP3 reader…
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Video playlists with start and end times
Is there a good GUI-application (for example an mplayer GUI or something like banshee) for linux which allows to make and edit playlists (for video files) with different starting and stopping times for each video on the list?
Added:
At the moment I…
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Why do I have to use sh to execute scripts from CD/DVD media?
I hit again on this strange behaviour of the system. I'm running Debian 6.0.6 and had quite some troubles executing a script directly from CD/DVD. Finally I had to use:
sh /media/cdrom/command
to run it. What is the big deal of having to resort to…
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What is the difference between dev, media and mnt?
Hi there can someone tell me what is the difference between /dev, /media and /mnt? Are not they dictionaries for removable storage?
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correctly splitting an avi file
I'm trying to split an avi file as follows.
avconv -i file.avi -vcodec copy -acodec copy -ss 0 -t 10 out.avi
and this works (It creates a chunk with first 10 seconds of the video).
The problem is when I want to split from tenth second to twentieth…
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Media keys work periodically with media player on Linux Mint
I'm on Linux Mint 19. Sometimes my media keys (play, pause, next, etc.) work fine with media apps (Spotify, in my case). Sometimes they do not work, and sometimes they even end up controlling media in my browser. Even though there is nothing in…
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MediaTomb - Not showing Cover Art from music folder in the photo collection
MediaTomb adds album covers and DVD covers into the photo collection. That means, when you are going through your photos, you also get album covers intermixed in there.
Is there a way of restricting the type of media from specific folders. So,…
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How to view adobeconnect video offline?
I want to watch some lectures created with adobeconnect. I have the lectures downloaded to my Ubuntu 12.04 machine. Each one consists of a stream that includes a video window of the professor lecturing (with audio) and another video window of his…
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How do I add MP3/etc support to my *nix desktop?
Almost every desktop *nix seems to ship without support for MP3 or other popular codecs that you really need.
What is the easiest way to add support for these codecs?
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How to forward a window (display) to another computer on the network
I'm setting up a media server for my movies. The server is networked and so are a couple laptops/desktops. The server is running the latest Ubuntu (desktop edition, not server).
This is the scenario I'm trying to achieve:
Server is turned on and is…
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Auto-mounting to a directory other than /media in Fedora 13
I am using Fedora 13. I need to be able to configure how media are mounted automatically. For an example, I want to change the parent of all mounted media to be a directory other than /media. All the material on the Internet seem to be old. I…
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Command to reread partitions from media
When I insert media (e.g. an SD card) the system (Ubuntu 12.04) reads the partition table and creates all the /dev/*[1234] links to each partition. If I repartition the media I have to physically remove and reinsert it to update these links. Is…
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Determining media format/encoding for DLNA system
How do you determine what parameters are needed by a DLNA renderer and server?
I have a Samsung TV that is a DLNA renderer. I also have a Western Digital NAS running Debian and have Twonky and MediaTomb 0.12.0 installed. The Samsung TV seems to…
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How is PCMCIA hard drive format different from default FAT16 "msdos"?
I am attempting to format some CF cards for use in an OLD digital camera (1995 Kodak DCS460). The camera uses PCMCIA Type III. It came with a Type III 260MB hard drive.
If I format the CF card under Linux or Windows, as FAT16, the camera can see…
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