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Is there a video player with the ability to speed up the video ?

Asked by Superkrazie

Hi. I really like Ubuntu a lot, but I am forced to use windows because I cannot find a video player that has the ability to speed up the video like windows media player does. I was just wondering if there was one out there that did do this that I was missing. Thank you for your time and help.

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Max Schukin (schukin) said : 		#1

VLC media player can speed up the video. To install it open Terminal (Applications => Accessories => Terminal) and enter:

sudo apt-get install vlc

When you enter your password in the terminal there's no visual feedback (no asterisks), but it's still accepting your password.

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Max Schukin (schukin) said : 		#2

If you don't want to use terminal to install VLC media player run Applications => Add\Remove...
In the search field type: vlc
Mark "VLC media player" in the applications list and press the Apply Changes button.

Hope this helps.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#3

Here to install vlc and other stuffs to play mp3 and dvd under Ubuntu

First please install https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats

You need to have extra repositories enabled..

Using System->Administration->Software sources [Ubuntu software tab] please enable (Check the checkbox) all the showed repositories rows.

after getting all the required repositories enabled

Type the following command in a terminal (applications -> accessories -> terminal)

sudo aptitude install vlc

To get better dvd playback first you need to add the medibuntu http://www.medibuntu.org/ repository to your /etc/apt/sources.list file:
here howto add https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu here the medibuntu available software list http://packages.medibuntu.org/

Then to install:

sudo update
sudo aptitude install libdvdread3 libdvdnav4 libdvdcss2

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

Hope this helps

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vineeth e (vineethe-88) said : 		#4

from where to download vlc media player for ubuntu ?

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