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Video format for both iPhone and Android?
Is there a format that plays both on iPhone and Android?
I have been trying to encode videos in MP4 using ffmpeg - however, using libx264 or mpeg4 - the videos either only work in Android, or in ...
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System freezes for 5 seconds when seeking in or skipping to songs and videos
When I start playing a new video or MP3 or skip to a time when playing them, my system hangs for a couple of seconds. A restart solves this problem, but only for a while. It does not matter which ...
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How do you convert FLV file format to a format that Picasa recognizes (e.g. AVI, MPEG, WMV)?
I use one of the Firefox plugins for embedded video to download content from Youtube and other sites. The program downloads these videos in FLV format, and I have VLC Media Player to play them, which ...
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Will movies look different on different video cards
My PCI-E card is an 8400GS and my onboard video is an HD4200. They both play movies without any slowdown. Will the movies look different? Will one picture look sharper than the other? I suspect ...
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What is an easy, reliable way to determine the type of container a video file uses on Windows?
There are a lot of different video file containers floating around (AVI, WMV, MKV, OGM, etc.), and I've found you can't always trust the file extension. Too often, some confused individual changed it ...
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Does Winamp include video or audio encoders?
Does Winamp have an audio/video encoder? I would really enjoy that.
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What are the default video formats which can be played with a default XP installation?
I'm trying to convert some video files on Linux which can be played on what I assume is a default installation of Windows XP. I don't have access to the machine they will be played on, and the user ...
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How can I learn how multimedia file formats work?
I have always been a bit puzzled about how audio/video file formats work, and how the extension of a media file (e.g. mp4) doesn't always tell the whole story about what media formats the file ...
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How to stream TV/Films/Music over the internet to various devices from a home server?
Set up:
An always on old-ish laptop connected to a NAS which contains TV/Films/Music.
I want to be able to stream on the fly the data on my NAS to various connected devices such as iphone or laptop. ...
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Video Streaming in Windows 7
I just got Windows 7 up and running, and I turned on the new media streaming feature and added all of my music and videos to the corresponding libraries on my machine. I can then go to my XBox 360 ...
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Command line video conversion tools [closed]
I'm looking into developing our video content platform and part of it includes a better way for our users to upload their video content (anything from dvds, flash video, dxid, wmv, etc..) and have it ...
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How can I repair a broken AVI file?
I have an .avi file that is about 110mb. When I try to play it with VLC Media Player it says something like "This file is broken. Attempt to repair?" and after it does its thing it is still unable to ...
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