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Intel Corporation Device a780 (rev 04) - Onboard Video
Trying to get proper video card drivers installed on Ubuntu 20.04 (5.15 Kernel) for onboard Intel a780.
lspci -v | grep -A 10 VGA
VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device a780 (rev 04) (...
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ubuntu 24.04 won't configure nvidia-driver-390 using software and update
Upgraded to U24.04 and decided to run the nouveau graphic package this time. But it has continues to have issues, the desktop icons keep moving and some only load occasionally
I tried to install the ...
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Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS Freezing During Video Calls/Video Playback – Audio Continues, No Input Response
I'm encountering a frustrating issue with my system that has been running fine for years, but recently it has started freezing randomly once a day. Here's my setup:
OS: Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS
CPU: 11th ...
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Video performance with vlc and with the system video player on Ubuntu 24.04 is poor
I have downloaded VLC in an attempt to improve the performance of video playback on my Ubuntu 24.04 system. However, I am still experiencing issues where the video images stop intermittently while the ...
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Rendering GIF in Kdenlive results in pixel dithering/discoloration
Using Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS
If I render a video in Kdenlive as an MP4 file, it looks fine. If I render it as a GIF, the solid grey part of the video has this odd pixel discoloration effect? I don't know ...
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MKV File causing VLC to stop playing abruptly
I've just installed Ubuntu 22.04 on a 10-year-old, x86_64 Dell Latitude laptop with an Intel processor, and integrated graphics. Apart from being choppy on Windows, there was this issue when it came ...
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Ubuntu fan noise while watching videos
While watching videos on either YouTube or anywhere else, on Ubuntu 22.04 creates high CPU utilization and fan noise. What's the reason? Is this okay and how do I avoid it?
My Windows dual booted with ...
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Hardware Acceleration in Firefox not working after recent update
I'm using the Firefox snap version 115.0.2 on Ubuntu 23.04 with Wayland and an Intel graphics card. Last week, I followed this article to activate hardware acceleration in Firefox and verified that it ...
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Newly installed Graphics card not detected
I have a clean install of Ubuntu 22.04. I can't figure out if I'm actually using my dedicated graphics card. When I connect the monitor to the graphics card output, it doesn't show anything, the ...
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The Video Output on my screen is very lagging
For VGA bus there is no kernel driver in use..
The Output of the lspci -k | grep -EA3 'VGA|Display'; is as follows
00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Mullins [...
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Cannot get hardware acceleration to work in Chrome on Intel Alder Lake
I have been trying for several days to get hardware acceleration to work in a fresh HTPC build.
I have an i5-12400 (Alder Lake) CPU running Kubuntu 22. No matter what I try, chrome does not seem to be ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 videos look like stop motion animation when I try to watch them
I try to watch movies in my SSD or videos in internet and they look like stop motion animation. They also look freezy.
I tried three different things:
Installing Radeon Vega graphics drivers. It didn'...
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Very fast flickering screen (Xubuntu on Lenovo Yoga)
I installed Xubuntu (i.e. ubuntu light) on a (laptop/tablet) Lenovo Yoga 900S 12ISK with HD Graphics 915 video card. After bios update (to allow for Linux) installation went fine but the login screen (...
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Various AMD driver issues
I've recently deleted windows to fully switch to Ubuntu, but I've hit a few snags along the way. First being, when I try and boot into Ubuntu and dont use the nomodeset addition to grub, it simply ...
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screen tearing horizontal lines bug in ubuntu 20.04 while playing video or dragging window
In my system I have intel HD Graphics 620.
When I play video or drag any window I see the horizontal lines on the screen like slices.
horizonal lines while playing video
I tried one solution. i have ...
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VA-API Hardware decode does not work
I’m running a Chromebox which runs Ubuntu 20.04 (Celeron 3205U, Intel Broadwell-U Graphics, 4GB RAM, with the intel-media-driver driver installed. I’ve been trying to get hardware decode working, but ...
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Hardware acceleration in Firefox not wokring with AMD integrated GPU
I have run into issues trying to use hardware acceleration for video decoding on Firefox 95.0.1 on Ubuntu 21.10, I am using the package downloaded from apt. I have previously set it up on my old ...
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Wayland with Intel Graphics results in graphical stuttering - is there a solution?
I've been using wayland with intel 520 graphics and, for the most part, it works excellently. However, I noticed that any hardware accelerated 1080p video playback (VLC,MPV etc) causes stuttering, not ...
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Old video adapters cannot to play more than 30 frames per second videos
I use Ubuntu-Studio 20.04.3 LTS inside two desktop computers and one laptop computer.
That laptop is a HP 250 G5 device, which we can consider as an old computer.
The internal video adapter of that ...
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How do I improve the graphics for videos and 3D uses?
How do I improve the graphics for videos and 3D uses? I want to do it with software, and I'm hoping there's a way to increase graphics without compromising performance, or even making it better. ...
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Why does the VLC player has lag after pause?
why when I pause the vlc player and then start it after a few seconds, part of the movie doesn't play and jumps forward, while on Windows This problem did not occur.
My system specifications:
CPU: ...
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Transplanted SSD between 2 laptops, graphics gone worse, not better
I've moved an SSD from an older laptop to newer one. Cinnamon installed on Ubuntu Server, 20.10 and upgraded to 21.04 (I prefer that method to getting the Cinnamon remix distro)
Older laptop
Acer ...
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Screen temporarily freezes when watching a video
Whenever I'm watching a video the screen freezes for about 1 second and then goes back to normal, this happens every 30 seconds or so. Usually happens when showing a video on the screen (YouTube, ...
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Video playback problems (Intel UHD 750)
I've got a PC with Intel 11500 CPU which works nicely with Windows, but some strange things happen when I try to watch videos with it in Linux. The Linux Desktop works fine, and I've updated Ubuntu. ...
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Video driver suddenly changed to llvmpipe upon startup
I had shut down my pc a little while ago, and when I booted it up just now, the screen is all stretched and low resolution, I went into my settings and it says my graphics is llvmpipe, I didn't ...
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Video lag/stuter with Intel graphics
I recently decided to switch from Debian Buster with kernel 4.9 to Ubuntu. I started with Ubuntu 20.04 and I noticed a video stutter on YouTube, Zoom and Netflix. So I decided to switch to Ubuntu 18....
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Lag when watching a Streaming or during webRTC conference
I installed Ubuntu v 20.04 LTS, here is my config:
$ inxi -Fxz
System:
Kernel: 5.8.0-40-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A
Desktop: Gnome 3.36.4 Distro: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS (Focal Fossa)
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Poor video streaming quality on Ubuntu 20.04
I've been trying Ubuntu 20.04 for about 1 month (newbie user alert) and tried to stream some videos using both Amazon Prime Video and Youtube, but the quality is very bad like it is in 480p. Video ...
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YouTube Videos in Full Screen Stuttering, Jittering and 'Lagging' on Ubuntu 20.04
When I run a full screen video on Ubuntu 20.04 on Firefox, or Chromium, the video jitters and skips frames in full screen mode. Videos look absolutely fine in standard mode.
My GPU is the AMD Radeon ...
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Diagonal video distortion (Ubuntu 20.04.1)
After installing 20.04.1 persistent diagonal distortions appear in streaming HD video content from multiple sources - Netflix, Amazon, Youtube, Apple Movie Trailers, etc. A diagonal line forms across ...
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Stuttering animations and videos with Ubuntu 20.04 and nvidia
Everything is in the title. I have more information so I edit the question and the title.
With a old PC having an old video card (nvidia 950 I think) and Ubuntu 20.04, I don't have any problem at all ...
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green and blue horizontal lines on google chrome youtube videos
I have these green and blue lines at the bottom of almost every youtube video that I play in google chrome. I had the similar problem in Manjaro so I don't think this problem is distro based. I am ...
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Best way to switch to xserver-xorg-video-nouveau in Ubuntu 20.04?
I want to switch to the Nouveau drivers. I'm using the Nvidia drivers in KDE, Ubuntu 20.04. What's the best way to switch to using xserver-xorg-video-nouveau? I have seen numerous threads talking ...
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Graphics driver not keeping up under Ubuntu 20.04
I recently upgraded from Ubuntu 19.10 to 20.04.
I experience the following problem. The graphics is slightly delayed every second or so. This can be seen in at least three ways.
Video playback where ...
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Choppy Video playback on Ubuntu 20.04
I tried to play videos in my computer which has Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. But, the videos are not running smoothly. For example each dialogue and its corresponding scene are getting repeated over and over. ...
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Graphics is slow with an external monitor connected
I have a Dell XPS 15 laptop (not sure what year, but it has a Skylake CPU and GeForce GTX 960M graphics) running 18.04.4, with Cinnamon, and Nvidia native drivers, version 430. It generally works ...
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Ubuntu 18.04-4 installs in safe graphics mode only, but boots to purple screen where mouse works (NVIDIA)
3 days ago I bougth computer parts and put them together. Ubuntu 19.10 would only install in safe graphics mode, but it worked. Then I changed my motherboard and sent the old one back to the seller. ...
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Dual booting Ubuntu & Windows 10. Going from Ubuntu to Windows 10, when I load anything that uses graphics, it doesn't load
Dual booting Ubuntu & Windows 10. Going from Ubuntu to Windows 10, when I load anything that uses graphics (youtube videos, livestreams, etc) it doesn't load.
Here's how I usually get it to work:
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Catastophic failure of Ubuntu 18.04 when playing any videos
Within minutes of playing any videos in any browser my whole system hangs and the only thing I can do to recover it is to do a hard reset by pressing the power button.
Sometimes I still have the use ...
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No video output booting from Ubuntu 18.04 with dedicated GPU
I have a computer running Ubuntu 18.04 and when it is turned on, all the lights and fans turn on but there is no video output from the graphics card. The specs are as follows:
AMD Ryzen 2600
MSI Pro ...
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19.04 | Nvidia X Server vs Intel Graphics
Today I updated to 19.04 from Manjaro
The issues:
Since I booted up my machine and whenever I tried to play any video file either via Videos, VLC and even on Amazon Prime and Netflix on google ...
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Video quality problem with Nvidia
I have a GTX 1060 6GB GPU on my desktop connected to a 4K monitor. There is no image quality or resolution error, but when there is fast movement in a video, the image becomes pixelated.
I installed ...
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Videos, can't play after updating video card (AMD radeon)
After updating video cards in my ubuntu, No videos can't play, when I am trying to launch, it returns that output
vlc Movie\ HD.mp4
VLC media player 3.0.4 Vetinari (revision 3.0.4-0-gf615db6332)
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Video tearing 18.04 nvidia
I've installed proprietary drivers, and I have powerful card. Running totem or smplayer I see lines in video (tearing).
jk@jk:~$ inxi -G
Graphics: Card: NVIDIA GM204 [GeForce GTX 980]
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HD .mkv files - any hope for improvement in 18.04
I am having difficulty running HD .mkv files in 17.04. I was wanting to upgrade to 18.04 but read that the graphics drivers don't work properly and have been downgraded in current releases. Is there ...
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Video problem in Ubuntu 18.04 with VLC
I installed 18.04 on a Dell Latitude E6520. According to the specs (http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/latit/en/latitude-e6520-specsheet.pdf) this machine has 2 video cards, an Intel® HD ...
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video stalling, audio fine (Ubuntu 18.04)
When streaming video on Chrome, the image frequently but irregularly (about once every other minute) stalls for several seconds, while the audio keeps playing perfectly. The Internet connection is ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 Video Driver for AOpen DEX4502
That ancient AOpen DEX4502 hardware has an Intel® GM45+ICH9M chipset with GMA X4500MHD graphics engine.
I could not install Ubuntu 18.04 without using that nomodeset option.
Now Ubuntu is booting but ...
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Video embedded in Open Office Impress flickering
I have an issue with an embedded .avi video on Open Office Impress. The source video itself plays normally in Xine, Videos, VLC.
When embedded in Impress, the video gets distorted by a flickering ...
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Why do I see differences when comparing screenshots from YouTube in a browser and the same video downloaded with youtube-dl in VLC?
Thanks to this website I know that when I use youtube-dl there is no quality loss at all when I download videos.
I picked up one video and I downloaded it in several formats/quality etc.
I made n ...
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