Sometimes I like to watch VLC media on my TV connected to the HDMI port on my laptop and I now have to:
because I like to sit in the dark while watching TV!
Has anyone solved the above already for themselves through a script?
The TV is always connected to HDMI and the monitor always to the VGA port if that makes things easier.
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.
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 these two apps, or possibly some other apps?
Thanks!
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 1366x768. When I go into the Monitors control applet, I cannot change the resolution to anything other than the current or 640x480.
A user had a similar overscan problem, but fixed the overscan by adjusting his TV's aspect ratio settings. I do not have that luxury.
Is there a way I can do this without having to delve into xorg.conf or other command-line craziness? I'm more than comfortable doing so, but there must be a cleaner way.
I'm running Ubuntu Natty, keeping up with updates and such.
Here's the output of lspci:
colin@bricktop:~$ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor DRAM Controller (rev 12) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 12) 00:04.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Thermal Management Controller (rev 12) 00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller (rev 06) 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 06) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 06) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 06) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev 06) 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev 06) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 06) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev a6) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller (rev 06) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 4 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 06) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller (rev 06) 00:1f.6 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem (rev 06) 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 06) 02:00.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation uPD720200 USB 3.0 Host Controller (rev 03) 03:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9287 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
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 in there that I've forgotten about.
Here's what I'm looking at today:
oli@bert:~$ ls -l *.jpg
-rw------- 1 oli oli 8061 2010-11-19 18:30 An-alien-from-Mars-Attack-002.jpg
-rw------- 1 oli oli 24362 2010-11-19 18:30 An-alien-from-Mars-Attack-006.jpg
-rw------- 1 oli oli 8147 2010-11-05 18:08 Avatar-Film---2009-002.jpg
-rw------- 1 oli oli 35602 2010-11-05 18:08 Avatar-Film---2009-006.jpg
-rw------- 1 oli oli 6058 2010-12-03 18:42 Britney-Spears-victim-of--002.jpg
-rw------- 1 oli oli 28330 2010-12-03 18:42 Britney-Spears-victim-of--006.jpg
-rw------- 1 oli oli 8135 2010-11-12 19:19 charlie-brooker-twitter-p-002.jpg
-rw------- 1 oli oli 22115 2010-11-12 19:19 charlie-brooker-twitter-p-006.jpg
-rw------- 1 oli oli 8059 2010-10-29 18:47 Leonardo-DiCaprio-002.jpg
-rw------- 1 oli oli 29988 2010-10-29 18:47 Leonardo-DiCaprio-006.jpg
-rw------- 1 oli oli 8064 2010-10-22 16:41 Spot-the-difference-.-.-.-002.jpg
-rw------- 1 oli oli 29188 2010-10-22 16:41 Spot-the-difference-.-.-.-006.jpg
They all seem like they're TV or film related... But I honestly don't have a clue what could be writing them. They don't bother me enough to go on a full-scale witch hunt but if anybody knows of something that writes images in the home directory like this, please let me know.