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no video over HDMI after re-seating the video card
I have an HTPC that's been in the same configuration for about a year now. Used daily to watch videos on my HDTV via a DVI-HDMI converter cable. Well today I popped out the video card to trouble-shoot another PC. Then I put it back in and now I get no output on the HDTV over HDMI. The TV is detec...

Group video calling between Mac OS X and Windows 7?
iChat can do group video chats well on OS X. It looks like Skype can do group video chats on Windows 7 now (but that's not in the Mac version yet). Is there something that will play nice with both platforms (along with good video quality)? ...

How do I automatically rename and move movies?
I'm looking for some software which will take a video file, work out the correct name of the film, rename it and then move it to another drive on my computer inside a folder with the same name. So for example, "Saw III.avi" would get renamed and moved to "D:\Movies\Saw II...

How do FLV files work? Does the end-user download the entire contents of the file when watching it?
I have a 20 MB FLV video file at the backend and I'm serving them through FlowPlayer. (a) Does the end-user ultimately download 20 MB worth of information when watching the video or would it be less? (b) What video bitrate should an FLV file before we start seeing...

video card issue
this happens in both windows & linux alike. upon logging into windows or linux i may have a few minutes or a few seconds, at which point the display will freeze and never recover. i can see the activity lights blinking and hear my hard drive spinning along as if everything's fine. &#x...

How do I process my LiveMeeting recording into an actual video?
I finished up a LiveMeeting that I recorded. However, when I saved it, it saved everything to a folder with everything separated out. IE: There's an audio file with no video, there's a video file with no audio, and some other random files and folders including a *.trd file at the root directory....

Download video to PC from Sony DCR-DVD110E
Hello Wonderful Helpful People, I do apologize if this question is not suitable for this forum. I'm trying to download video from the mini-dvd on a Sony DCR-DVD110E to my PC. After hooking up the camera to the computer using a USB cable I choose the option on the ...

Paste audio and video
Hello, I have recorded a video with a digital camera, and separately used an audio recorder with a good microphone to get better sound (I could not directly connect the microphone to the camera). What software (Linux preferred but Windows possible) could replace th...

Mac OS X - .AVI Video distortion in VLC
When playing .AVI files on VLC (1.1.3 / Mac OS X 10.6.2) I often get intermittent distortion in the video. It breaks up into squares and bits of previous video are mixed with the current video. It's hard to describe but here are three frames showing it happening: ...

Playing video files from your hard drive in your TV
I want to play MKV, RMVB, MP4 files in my TV . The files are stored in my external hard drive. What device can I use to do this and what are my options? ...

Is the Nvidia GT 120 a step up from the 8800 GT?
The video card on my Mac Pro (early 2008) died. I had a NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB in my machine. Apple has the Nvidia GT 120 for sale on ther...

How to make a video like this one
How to make video like this. http://mail.google.com/mail/help/priority-inbox.html If this is not the right forum then please let me know where I should post question like this?&...

Video conferencing for larger rooms
I have a couple Logitech webcams which do the trick for basic video conferencing between the offices. We have a larger conference room 25x25 that isn't able to be fully covered by the Logitech webcams I've used. What recommendations do you have for such a room to use with Skype, Livemeeting ,et...

How much does a decent gaming PC cost?
I'm thinking of buying a PC to run Microsoft Flight Simulator. It's been a long time since I've dealt with Windows machines. What are reasonable gaming CPUs selling for these days? Any tips on which one to get? ...

How to get the video not-mirrored when Skype video chat?
I work with my team using Skype and view their whiteboard but all text are mirrored. How can I get it fixed? ...

Out of sync divx movie when playing on car player
What causes out-of sync when playing DivX movies on portable / car player ? I think it has something to do with how the movies are encoded, so here's the MediaInfo comparison of both movie file. ==========================================================================...

Linux/Ubuntu Audio Output Per Workspace/Application
I'm looking into building a media server that will output to 2 channels. I'd like to use Ubuntu however, if there's a better alternative, I'd be open to using it. I'd have 2 audio and video cards for output and what I'm interested in knowing is if there's a way to set the audio ou...

Resize videos with different widths to a fixed height preserving aspect ratio with ffmpeg
Hi, I'd like to convert a lot of video files to flash video for our company's website. I have a requirement that all of the videos must be in 360p format, so their size would be Nx360. FFMpeg uses -s argument to specify target resolution as WxH. I do...

Full Screen Flash Video on One Screen + Other Stuff on the Other?
I'm running Windows 7 plus Firefox on a dual monitor setup. When I try to watch Flash video (ESPN3, southparkstudios.com, YouTube, etc.) in full screen in one Firefox window plus browse the Web in another window, on my other screen, clicking on the Web browsing screen brings the Flash window out...

How can I merge video files of the same format/encoding together?
I have two sets of files which I'd like to merge. The first is a set of dual audio ogm files at the same format. They are episodes of an anime, basically. The second set is a pair of wmv's which are also the same format, though these don't have dual audio. ...