Problems Watching Video

[thesilfieszone]

Hey all i just upgraded from Ultimate Edition 1.8 to 2.0. My only problem is that when i try to watch videos a black screen shows up in the video every 100 frames or so, the video plays fine it doesn't studder or anything, but it looks like the video is constantly being refreshed and is annoying to watch. I have tried watching video on MPLAYER, VCL Media Player and Dragon Player.

I have a video driver installed and all my 3d window effects are running fine and the driver seems to be working, I can watch streaming videos (like on youtube) just fine. It's only when i play videos from my hard drive.

Anyone know what to do?


Thanks in advance for your help.

[2hot6ft2]

Have you tried turning off desktop effects? System >Preferences>Appearance>Visual Effects
Set it to none.
At least while watching videos.

[thesilfieszone]

Have you installed the restricted extras yet? If not then open a terminal and enter the following command "sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras" This may solve your problem if you have not already installed them.

thanks i'm doing that but i'm stuck at a configuration screen, it looks like it's the terms of the install. it gives me the "ok" option but when i click it nothing happens.

[thesilfieszone]

Have you tried turning off desktop effects? System >Preferences>Appearance>Visual Effects
Set it to none.
At least while watching videos.

i'll try it, but that doesn't solve the problem it just works around it. I really don't think i should HAVE to do that. But i will try it to see if it works. thanks!

[thesilfieszone]

Great, because i couldn't select "ok" during the configuration set up in the terminal, i just restarted, and now i have locked myself out of synaptic package manager it's saying:

E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.






please help.

[stanca]

Just do what it says:"sudo dpkg --configure -a" in terminal.

[pch.shot]

Try this:
Install Totem Xine
Remove Totem Gstreamer
Then select Movie Player from you start menu(that will be Totem xine)

[yitzikv]

Good shot!!! I also had this problem a while ago, but solved it in a bit different way:
if you run 'get-update' or 'get-upgrade', you'll notice that there are two updates (codec packages basically) cannot be selected. So is it broken or something, well the synaptics package manager did not say anything about broken packages, I don't know, didn't investigate yet, but when marking for reinstallation, after download progress in termilal, if you'll expand the window you'll notice that it is fixing errors automatically...

Another question though: some movie files basically .avi (not all) are behaving strangely when played - black and white alike with some green lines, sometimes vertical sometimes horizontal, it is in vlc player any other player wouldn't open at all. Did somebody faced this problem yet? Here is screenshot:

Thank You in Advance

[yitzikv]

Another question though: some movie files basically .avi (not all) are behaving strangely when played - black and white alike with some green lines, sometimes vertical sometimes horizontal, it is in vlc player any other player wouldn't open at all. Did somebody faced this problem yet? Here is screenshot:

screenshot-24.jpg

Looks like it may be a codec issue. I could be wrong.
Have you checked out XBMC yet? If not then I would recommend it. It is pretty good about being able to play any media format out there including Blue Ray and HD formats.

i think so too, but... dont' know need a solution
About XBMC, did not check yet, thanks anyway

[yitzikv]

Have you installed ubuntu-restricted-extras yet?

If you're asking me - yes.