A TV, or television, is a device that allows the user to watch streaming video content. Some TVs allow connection to a computer so that they can be used as a monitor.
Questions tagged [tv]
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How to set screen borders for HDMI output
Is there a way to set the screen borders manually? Right now, when I have it connected to my TV via HDMI, the edges of the screen are cut off. It looks something like this that I found from another question:
Card: AMD Radeon HD 4890
TV: Panasonic…
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How to connect computer to tv with hdmi?
I am trying to connect my laptop with my tv using an hdmi cable. It has worked with an vga cable, but my problem is that the screen does appear, but it freezes and nothing happens. The screen is also too big to fit the tv screen. I have checked and…
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Turn off all monitors while watching VLC media on TV
Sometimes I like to watch VLC media on my TV connected to the HDMI port on my laptop and I now have to:
Start VLC on the TV:
Positioned on the TV by CCSM.
The screen saver is being turned off by VLC.
Close the laptop
Turn off the monitor (If…
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How can i connect ubuntu 17.10 to my LG Smart TV
I installed ubuntu 17.10 normally and just want to duplicate my screen on my LG Smart TV, i have normal wifi but Miraclecast doesnt work for me and the intel WiDi thingy for linux is just code and i cant do anything with that. please help!
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Screencast to a TV through a Roku
I have an ubuntu 14.04 box, Roku 3 and 50 inch TV and I want to cast my pc screen to the TV. The roku and pc are on the same network. Has anyone got a way to do this? Doesn't have to be a nice solution, just wondering if it's possible.
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How do I get an Enter USB TV Box TV tuner aka Gadmei UTV302 to work?
Has anyone had any success in using the Enter USB TV Box from Enter Multimedia? It comes bundled with software that works in Windows. I have had no luck using it in Ubuntu 10.10.
Update 1
Here is the output from lsusb
Bus 007 Device 001: ID…
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How can fix HDMI HDTV overscan when I my TV has no aspect ratio setting?
I have a 32" Vizio HDTV. It's a few years old, but running well. I just connected a new nettop to it using HDMI out. It's the Intel 3x00 graphics chipset.
I'm seeing overscan, where the resolution in Ubuntu is set to 1280x720, but the TV itself is…
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Random images appearing in my home directory... Where are they coming from?
Here's an odd problem I've had for a while. Every so often, I find that I have several jpeg images sitting in my home directory that I didn't put there. I'm fairly sure this isn't a security breach but rather, there's something writing these files…
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How do I adjust display size, not resolution?
I have my Ubuntu 11.10 PC plugged into a TV using an HDMI input. The edges of the screen get cut off, and I can't adjust the television's settings for HDMI. I can adujust the "position and size" on the TV for all other inputs, but not HDMI for some…
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How to stream my laptop screen to the TV?
Recently I bought a Samsung Smart TV and with my Android mobile phone (using an app called Wifi Display) I can stream what I see on the mobile to the TV.
Is this feature available on Ubuntu? I would like to share my screen to the TV without wires,…
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Application for watching online TV
Is there a desktop application that is able to browse and play online TV channels (similar to browser extensions like chrome tv)?
I found democracy player, but there are no channels.
The application should support many channels from all over the…
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rip (transcode) multiple titles, from a tv series dvd, automatically
I want to rip some tv series. dvd::rip doesnt allow me to transcode all the titles with one click, which means doing the same process many times (20~ eps x many seasons= many videos).
Is there any software or script you know to copy all the dvds to…
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12.04 Ubuntu: configuring laptop to hook up to TV using HDMI cable?
I'm trying to use an HDMI cable to connect my HP dv5 notebook to a 32" Sony Bravia TV in order to watch Hulu stuff on a bigger screen. However, Google has been thoroughly unhelpful thus far!
When I hook the computer up to the TV using the Windows…
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Re-streaming tv to iPad
I use "air video server" (and "air video client") to stream videos from my computer to my iPad. Recently I found TV-MAXE (which is a sopcast client, I guess) for watching tv on Ubuntu. Is there a way to re-stream from my Ubuntu to the iPad using…
Guy
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How to watch TV with Me TV?
Please help: Me TV doesn't start (why??) and installing totem-plugins-dvb-daemon doesn't show up in Totem itself - so I can't watch TV with Totem.
I installed gnome-dvb-client as well as gnome-dvb-daemon. I can scan for channels via gnome-dvb-setup…
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