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Questions tagged [media-manager]

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Recommendations for a Windows Media Centre substitute?

Are there any suggestions for media centre that can be used on Ubuntu 10.10? I need a media centre which works as same as the Windows Media Centre, but I can drop the online shows =)
Wilsonzaizai
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Photo management with video support

F-spot is great, but does not have video support. Picasa is arguably even better, but although mov support is possible, avi and mpeg support is unavailable. Is there a photo management app that can also work with videos ? Thanks
jfoucher
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How to control Banshee playback speed?

Is there a way to control playback speed in Banshee? I want to play some videos and pod-casts faster or some video-tutorials slower - without changing the pitch - but can't find a build-in function or a plug-in. The reason behind this question is…
cprn
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How to automatize media renaming in kodi

I get media files which are not indexed by kodi (running on Ubuntu 15.10) - they need to be renamed first (and then they get indexed and fully processed). I did not find any built-in solution in kodi to monitor and rename files - beside an…
WoJ
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Is there a program to manage movies and TV shows that supports mp4 tags?

I'm looking for a media manager that will display and play movies and TV shows and will read data included in mp4 and m4v files. So far I've looked at XBMC, Moovida and Boxee and all of these seem to keep their own separate database or XML files for…
Kris Harper
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What Software to Use for Tagging/Annotating/Commenting/Highlighting Video Footage?

My Question in a Nutshell I’m looking for a tool with which I can easily organize/manage the video footage I have recorded. I don’t want to only tag the video clip files themselves, though; I would rather like to add notes to different positions in…
Chriki
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Organize Music Folder Automatically

Possible Duplicate: Sort music by metadata Is there any way I can automatically organize my Music folder? Banshee (at least I think it was banshee) moved tons of stuff out of their band/album folders and into the root Music folder and it will…
gregghz
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How should I set up a Linux file server for data sharing with Windows PCs and a PS3?

I have the following pieces of hardware I would like to network mostly for file sharing (media primarily): 1 gaming laptop, 1 i7 (2.3Tb storage) desktop, 1 P4 desktop (500g storage), and 1 250gig PS3. I am looking to setup a linux host (with a PS3…
mfg
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YAMMM equivalent

I've long used YAMMM for pulling metadata and thumbnails of my films/rips now i'm in trouble since switching as i can't seem to find any equivalent, The XBMC scrapers have been a disaster (e.g. I ripped toy story 2, put it in a folder "Toy story 2…
Will
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Is there a media center application that uses the native gui?

I've tried a fair number of media center apps like Boxee or XBMC. They all seem to use their own UI. Is there one that uses the native UI, more like rhythmbox or banshee? I'm looking for something that has the library features of one of the more…
Darth Egregious
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Program for downloading MMS/RTMP files

For RTMP, I already tried RTMPDump. It's very difficult and complicated to use in the terminal. Is there a GUI-based alternative? For MMS, I already tried Firefox's plugin, and some download manager. It downloads only a junk file or stream file, not…
Smile.Hunter
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simple media scraper/.nfo creator

I've been hunting around the web for a good .nfo file creator for my media files. So far I haven't been able to track one down that does what I want. Most of them seem to be full out media managers. I keep my media on an external drive and don't…
Jamie
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Software for maintaining arbitrary file collection across multiple volumes

I would like to use a single piece of software to maintain a collection of files. These files include music, movies, ebooks, win32 installers, photos and artwork. They are stored on my local HDD, remote HDD, CDs and DVDs. By maintain, I mean I want…
lofidevops
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media-scanner-service consumes 100% CPU on Bq Aquarius

I have have something like 10 Gigs of music on my SD card and media-scanner-service takes 50%-100% of CPU constantly. Rebooting or waiting doesn't help. I think it shouldn't take several days to scan it. Actually the music do appear in the player,…
juzzlin
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unable to install mediaelch on Ubuntu 14.04

I am trying to install MediaElch after the upgrade from 13.XX removed it. I followed the instructions from the MediaElch website (http://www.kvibes.de/en/mediaelch/download/) sudo add-apt-repository \ppa:kvibes/mediaelch sudo apt-get update sudo…
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