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Questions tagged [video-playback]

Anything related to playing videos on your computer.

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How to watch a video in full screen on multiple monitors?

How can I watch a video in full screen on multiple monitors? I'm using Windows 7 x64 and I can only make it go full screen on one monitor.
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How to change playback speed steps in VLC Player?

I am using VLC player as my video and audio player on Ubuntu (14.04). In playback menu under speed item, I can choose Faster (fine) or Slower (fine) to speed up or down playback. But it changed speed by 10% steps. I need 5% steps. Is there any way…
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What speed is 'fast' and 'faster' in VLC?

VLC isn't very informative in its playback speed designations. Any idea as to which playback speed each adjective refers to?
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Can I watch 3D movies on my computer just using 3D glasses and my normal monitor?

Can I watch 3D movies on my computer just using 3D glasses and my normal monitor or do I need a special monitor to see 3D?
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Loop video without stuttering

When VLC 2.1.3 loops a short video of about 600 ms (animation, uncompressed, 100 MB), there's a big delay of ~200 ms when it loops from the end back to the start. Windows Media Player can't even play it properly at 60 FPS. I remember that there used…
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HD 1080p .mkv videos don't play smooth. Is it a CPU, GPU, player or OS issue?

I have some .mkv 1080p videos but VLC can't play them smoothly. If I open the Task Manager, I can see that CPU is at 100%, because VLC uses as much as it can (95% or more). Then, I wonder Is it a CPU problem, because it's slow? Is it a GPU problem…
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WebM on Mac OS X

What options are there for playing WebM video files on Mac OS X other than VLC? A plugin to Quicktime Player would be perfect.
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Batch video presenting (playing, pausing, going to specific time, ...) in Linux

Is it possible to write an action file (e.g. a script) that plays some video files? I need it to be programmable to automatically perform these actions: start from a specific time play up to a specific time going to a specific time changing playing…
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How can you play a HDR video on Windows?

I'm wondering: Do I need a certain player? Just playing a HDR video in MPC-HC on the attached TV doesn't work. The video (HEVC MP4 with 10bit color/channel) isn't recognised as HDR, even in D3D fullscreen mode, so it looks wrong. The file works, if…
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Is there an easy way to read Blu-ray discs on Windows?

Some time ago, I bought my parents a computer dedicated to media (mostly photographs and movies through DLNA). My father asked me if he could read Blu-ray discs on it, so I bought a Blu-ray reader, but I can't find a software to do the playback. I…
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Videos are green?

All of my videos are green on Windows 10. It doesn't matter if they are locally stored, streamed from YouTube, or played from DVD's; every video type imaginable I could test with is green. It doesn't matter what program, or web browser I used (tried…
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How to increase the playback speed of a recorded WebEx meeting?

My company records WebEx meetings. Playing them back usually starts in IE and then jumps to a standard WebEx client (showing the shared screen and participants list), and also has the playback controls (play, stop, volume, slider), and a table of…
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Choppy, CPU-intensive Flash video performance in Chrome

Lately, watching Flash video (eg, thedailyshow.com) is terrible in Chrome: the chrome.exe process sits at 49% CPU (dual core obviously) if the tab is open, even when the video is paused. Sound is choppy, playback quality is bad. chrome:plugins…
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All video players (including browsers) fail to play any videos until reboot [Ubuntu 20.04]

After some uptime (quite randomly, it can happen after 2 days or an hour), videos on my computer start to freeze. There's no error messages, any video playback just stops like its on pause, though you can navigate through video frames via progress…
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Persistant lag during video playback on a high end HTPC

I have high end PC but I cannot playback videos smoothly. I have a Intel Core i7 8700K, 16gb RAM and GeForce GTX 1080. I have my PC connected via DisplayPort to HDMI cable to a LG 75UM7110 TV. I must use this cable since that is the only port…
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