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Questions tagged [streaming]

use this tag for questions relating to the streaming of content, either from your own server, or from the internet, including: video, music, etc.

Live streaming, delivering live over the Internet, involves a camera for the media, an encoder to digitize the content, a media publisher, and a content delivery network to distribute and deliver the content.

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How do I setup an Icecast server for broadcasting audio in my network?

Broadcasting the output of the soundcard as an internet radio stream is a reliable way to stream audio in a network. This can nicely be used to e.g. transmit audio in a wireless LAN to another computer or any other device capable of playing internet…
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How do I set up live audio streams to a DLNA compliant device?

Is there a way to stream the live output of the soundcard from our 12.04.1 LTS amd64 desktop to a DLNA-compliant external device in our network? Selecting media content in shared directories using Rygel, miniDLNA, and uShare is always fine - but so…
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How to watch Acestream / Sopcast Ubuntu 16.04 LTS?

Have you guys used Acestreams? The repository has not yet issued for 16.04 LTS, but besides, it might not be free anymore. Is anyone watching Acestreams/Sopcast with any other software + where can I find such software? Thank you!
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Unable to capture screen with VLC on Ubuntu+KDE 17.10

I am trying to play screen in a VLC window. (To share-screen on chrome) When I try to capture screen with "Desktop" option it says: Your input can't be opened: VLC is unable to open the MRL 'screen://'. Check the log for details. In the popup…
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Problem playing hotstar videos

I have Ubuntu 16.04 LTS installed on my PC. I have a problem playing Hotstar videos on google chrome. Version of google chrome: 51.0.2704.63 (64-bit). All other videos of youtube are playing normally in google chrome. I even tried playing the…
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Use webcam from laptop on desktop pc

I want to use the webcam on my laptop as video device on my pc to use it for video conferencing etc. So I not just want to stream the video. I actually want to "stream" the entire device over network. So, two computers, one streams its webcam, the…
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Is there a way to stream audio/video to an Apple Airplay Device?

Is there a way to stream audio or video to an Apple Airplay device? I have an Aiprort Express that can play audio, but the same question applies to the Apple TV or any other Airplay device. It is really easy to do this in iTunes and I was wondering…
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How to use android 2.1 phone as remote audio receiver?

I have an unused HTC Hero Android phone (running Android OS 2.1), I would like to connect it to audio amplifier and leave it connected for months, so I could use this android phone as remote pulseaudio server/receiver/etc. There is "Remote Audio"…
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How to play rtsp streams in ubuntu?

More specifically, the question is how to play rtsp streams from addresses that have a question mark in them. I.E: rtsp://some.server.name:554/video_file.wmv?authstring=sOm3StrIN2==¶m=3 I have tried various media players, but couldn't stream…
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Stream all audio FROM my android phone TO pulseaudio

I have seen a lot of apps and solutions online to receive audio from a desktop to an android phone. I also know how to stream audio from one desktop to another, using paprefs and pavucontrol. What I want is to be able to stream from my Android phone…
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Why is Hulu video streaming quality poor on Ubuntu 22.04?

Poor quality streaming seems to be exclusive to Hulu as the Netflix stream is clearly HD quality. Hulu streaming quality is blocky and pixelated. The stream was tested in the Firefox browser with DRM controlled content enabled as well as…
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Cannot play DRM content in browsers (honestly, I've looked)

Okay, before you guys say it's been answered and besiege me with links, I promise I've spent a TON of time searching: honestly I've looked, I've tried everything on every post I've found. I hopped in the IRC channel and the few times I've asked for…
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How can I force fullscreen on my right screen?

I have 2 screens: 17" on left and 22" screen on right side. When I watch a movie with VLC and want to watch on full-screen on my 22" screen (the right one), I move my VLC window in right screen and then click on full-screen => no problem. BUT…
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Ubuntu 18.04 Webcam streaming problem

I am required to run some video processing algorithms on IP camera stream. I don't have an IP Camera so my idea is to use a webcam as an IP cam for RTSP streaming, which the client machines can acquire and run the algorithms on. I learned that VLC…
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Recording a YouTube live stream using VLC

I'm trying to set VLC to record a live stream on YouTube using cron. Vlc records videos that aren't live streaming just fine, but when the stream is live VLC records at most only 24 seconds. Why does it stop there? How can I get it to record…
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