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How to turn-off 10-bit video output from PC to TV?
How do you disable 10-bit video output from an AMD/ATI 6000 series card in Windows 7?
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Play movie from Windows Media to a DLNA TV: "failed to retrieve media information from media server"
I have three movie files in my Windows Media Player library. All three of them play fine on the computer. If I choose "Play To" and select my Sony Bravia TV, one of them works fine, but the other two ...
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How can I rotate MOV and mp4 files in Windows Live Photo Gallery?
I am using Windows Live Photo Gallery on Windows 7 to manage my photos and video clips from camera/phone. If I import photos/videos from camera, it is smart enough to rotate as necessary, but I have ...
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P8Z68-V PRO BIOS output gone after switching to HDMI inputs on monitors
I have a newly built machine with an ASUS P8Z68-V PRO MB, ASUS GeFore 210 Silent video card and Windows 7 Prof. Everything configured fine upon install with the output from the 210 going to two Dell ...
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Find music videos in bulk
I have a fairly large MP3 collection, that I would like to upgrade to a music video collection. Basically what I want to do is go through all my songs and find matching music videos. I plan on doing ...
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Youtube video slow on one platform
On my laptop, I have Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.10 set up to dual boot. When I'm on Windows, Youtube is really slow, but on Ubuntu its very fast even with HD videos.
Why is that, and what can I do to ...
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Video player that can be controlled by Socket / TCP
Is there a Video Player that can be controlled with TCP?
I think VLC supports this - but I can't find any easy to follow instructions on how to do this.
I will be using this on a windows 7 machine, ...
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How do I get 480i resolution for an external monitor in Windows 7?
I'm trying to get a laptop video signal to my really old television, so that I can play movies on it.
But the TV won't accept the video signal. I found the manual online, and apparently the output ...
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Stream media to remote client (native desktop client, web, anything is fine)
There is a server (Intel Atom dual-core CPU with Windows XP installed on it). The 'server' got a huge bandwidth, which I could easily use to stream media to my home PC where I have a simple ADSL ...
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Can I create a 3D movie using two webcams? [closed]
How can I take two webcams - one USB, one built into my computer - take the video from both of them using software, and make a 3D video?
Is this even possible?
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iTunes not playing without audio devices connected to audio port
I am trying to use iTunes to loop through a playlist of videos – I do not need any audio output for these videos.
If I unplug the audio device (headphones, speakers, etc.) from the audio jack on the ...
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Why won't video play smoothly when saved on laptop Internal hard drive, but
Why won't video play smoothly when saved on laptop Internal hard drive, but runs fine on external USB and external hard drives?
I've got a Toshiba Satellite T130-13L running Windows 7 Home Premium 64-...
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Import Video from Camcorder using Pixela ImageMixer Vs. Windows Import
I have a Canon HF10. The camera came bundled with a Pixela ImageMixser SE, which is used to import the videos to your computer.
As this software is giving me grief, can I just use Windows Import ...
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How do I determine the amount of memory I should have on my next video card?
I have a dual monitor setup with both monitors in the 1600x1200 range and am running Windows 7. I don't do PC gaming, but do non-professional video editing (and viewing single-monitor full-screen ...
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My computer starts a video on the desktop at night. How?
Pretty much almost every night now, but not at exactly the same time, I wake up to a video playing on my computer. In the middle of the night, I'll hear noises, go to the computer room and there will ...
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xrandr equivalent for Windows 7?
My old 7" Eee netbook runs Linux. I'm able to run the following command to scale what the display shows from the native/tiny 800x480 to something a little larger:
xrandr --output LVDS1 --scale 1.28x1....
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How do I resolve the "MMC cannot initialize the snap-in" error in Windows 7?
When I'm trying to add the "Windows Firewall With Advanced Security" Snap-in, I get this error message:
MMC cannot initialize the snap-in
I searched for a solution but couldn't find any.
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Why does my monitor take over 5 minutes to display anything after turning it on?
When I turn on my monitor the screen is black and the power light on the monitor blinks every few seconds. This continues for 5-10 minutes and then either displays my desktop or a white screen.
I am ...
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How can I burn many movies to a video DVD?
I once bought a DVD containing four 90-minute-long movies. Now I'm trying to write such a DVD, but don't know how to do it.
I tried to use DVD-Flick, but it says the disc is 98% used for a single 90-...
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How can I convert audio files like WAV or MP3 to video files that I can upload to YouTube?
I have about 15 WAV files that I want to upload to my YouTube channel, but YouTube only accepts video files. I know that I can open each file up in Movie Maker or some other video editing software ...
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Software for cutting and joining videos of any format
I need a software that should be able to cut and join any video format.
I'm using Windows 7, and one software I got was not working with it.
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Windows 7 ATI Radeon Quad DVI no longer working with HDMI devices
Graphics card is a GeCube Radeon HD3870X2 X-Turbo Quad DVI ports with (HDCP Support)
Memory: 1GB GDDR3
Bus: PCI Express 2.0 x16
Connectors: DVI
DVI-I & TV Out
Upgraded to Windows 7 from VISTA ...
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Best way to output analog video from a PC?
I have been working on a project for some time that involves using frame grabbers to get frames of video from a camera running algorithms on the result.
There are lots of different frame grabbers that ...
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Windows 7 swaps screen contents upon de-hibernation
I have a AMD 64 bit Windows 7 Ultimate running with a built-in ATI Radeon 3200 graphics adapter, on which I have two screens connected, a VGA CRT and a DVI LCD.
The screens have different resolutions....
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VLC Crash when playing MKV files in Windows 7
I'm not sure if the mkv file is corrupted, but when it is opened with VLC player, VLC loads up and displays nothing. Can't even close VLC after that. And also, VLC is running with 50% of the CPU. I ...
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Encode HD video to a good format for editing
I have a video that I would like to edit, but it's currently a mov (H.264) file, which makes frame by frame editing impossible. So, I'd like to re-encode it to a better format. I read that DV is a ...
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How to change the frame that is shown as video thumbnail in windows 7 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Use later frame for video thumbnail in Windows 7
I have many videos whose thumbnails are black (title part with black background). It makes video thumbnails almost useless.
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Broke laptop screen, trying to use usable region
I recently broke my laptop screen, and now 1" of the right side is unusable. I'd like to be able to use the laptop without always manually resizing windows to keep them away from this region.
I was ...
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Video playback on HDMI connected TV freezes when full screen pressed
I've connected a 40' Philips 40PFL7605H as an external (second) monitor to GTX 275 card via HDMI. OS is Windows 7, CPU Core i7, 4 GB RAM, etc.
It works okay, but when I press full screen in media ...
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Youtube downloader that can use the youtube.com/user/userxxxx url [closed]
I am trying to find a youtube downloader that allows to put in the url youtube.com/user/userxxx, then presents me with a list of all the videos of userxxx so that I can select the videos I am ...
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Streaming a video from Windows 7 laptop to Samsung TV
I am trying to setup my environment so that I can stream video from my Windows 7 laptop to my Samsung TV.
My WiFi router and laptop has 802.11n, the Samsung TV has Wifi support. However I find that ...
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How can I check the video/audio format for a MKV file?
I have a MKV video file. Can you please tell me how I can find out the video/audio codec of that file, and how I can find out if it is 1080p or 1080i?
I have a Windows 7 desktop PC.
Thank you.
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How to find video files with a certain framewidth
I have the following problem: a large collection of video files of all sorts of formats with very different framewidths and frameheights on several hard drives.
I want to search for all video files ...
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How can I get thumbnails in Windows Explorer for .3gp and .webm files?
Basic set up
On my Windows 7 Professional 64-bit system I have installed K-Lite Codec Pack 7.10 and K-Lite Codec Pack 64-bit 4.6 with only the following options (the idea being to only add what's ...
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Video player for time interval measurement
I'm trying to figure out how many milliseconds passed between two events in a video. But most players I tried have 1 second resolution in the time label.
What are the players that show higher ...
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Video Playback problem under different user account
I can play a movie using XBMC at full HD.
When I change the user account, and play the same movie with XBMC the playback is choppy.
I have notice the same problem exist for all kind of media, full HD ...
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Video not displaying during boot-up or in Windows 7 after new card purchase (Sapphire Raedon HD 6850)
I'm a network admin, so by no means do I claim to be a hardware genius ...but I'm not a beginner either.
I'm working on a friend's PC for him installing a new video card. He has an ASUS P5N-E SLI ...
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Good programs to reverse video clips
What are some good programs that will enable me to reverse my video clips?
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How can I know if my media player is using hardware acceleration?
I'm using The KMPlayer for my media playback needs, especially because it has faster startup time even with larger media files. But I'm not sure whether it is utilizing hardware acceleration or not (...
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Multiple instances of Media Player Classic in multiple windows
How can I set Media Player Classic so that new instances of the player are opened when a new file is opened. Right now, the newly opened video starts playing in the already opened instance.
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AVCHD videos play audio but no picture
I've got Windows 7, which I'm told is meant to support AVCHD videos out of the box. Unfortunately, when I play my videos in Windows Media Player (version 12), I get sound but no picture.
Any advice ...
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Having issues with flickering output to TV from Windows 7 laptop
I cannot tell why this is happening. I cannot get a pattern as to when it happens. Sometimes, I watch entire Hulu content without any interruptions. Other times, it happens 2-3 times in a span of 3 ...
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Embedded video is not shown in Internet Explorer 9 RC or Beta
In IE 9 RC or in beta, the embedded video is not shown in the web page. I verified the security settings in "internet options". Did not find any issue. Please find the screen shot below. I am able to ...
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What happens when computer output res is too high?
lets say I have a computer running Win 7 and the res is 1920x1080. Now i shut down the computer then replace the monitor with one whose max res is 1024x768. What would happen? would the computer ...
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How to play 24 fps video smoothly on a 60Hz display?
I use mpc-hc to play videos on Win7 x64. With the default settings (#1), video playback is great most of the time. But for panning shots, playback is not smooth. I stepped through the video frame by ...
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Subtitle problem in m2ts video file
In my Windows 7 Ultimate (32 bit) OS, VLC Media Player 1.1.5 can play m2ts video file. But when I load an srt file, VLC stops playing the video file. No message is shown.
I don't use any other video ...
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Pixelated video playback in Windows 7 64 bit
I am using Windows 7 64 bit with ATI Radeon 5730 graphics in my laptop. I get pixelated video playback or in some cases problems with sound. Here are the combinations I tried.
K-lite Mega Codec 32 ...
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Flash Video Decodes Incorrectly
I'm running Windows 7 32-bit on an Asus 1215N laptop Google Chrome and Internet Explorer with Adobe Flashplayer 10.1. Recently I've noticed that I'll have errors in my flash video.
If it exists on ...
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Can Windows Media Player create playlists based on folder structure?
Over the years I've carefully molded my digital media collection into a series of folders that make it easy for me to find what I'm looking for. I recently discovered the awesomeness that is streaming ...
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How can I stream video from my XP sp3 desktop to my win 7 laptop?
I would like to stream media from my XP sp3 desktop to my Win7 laptop. I currently have Windows Media Player 11 on both machines. The XP one is set up for the media sharing service as far as I can ...
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