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lakersforce

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Registered: 2009-01-28

Posts: 12

Feeling kinda blue

Jut started using Arch here...

I've got my desktop up and running and almost everything is fine.

I've noticed that Archlinux has a blue theme to it: grub is blue, colours in manpages is blue etc

But my videos in vlc running on top of Xcfe4 is blue too! Is this some kind of joke?

I noticed this post, but it doesn't help much!

output of lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA IDE Controller (rev 03)
01:04.0 FLASH memory: ENE Technology Inc ENE PCI Memory Stick Card Reader Controller
01:04.1 SD Host controller: ENE Technology Inc ENE PCI SmartMedia / xD Card Reader Controller
01:04.2 FLASH memory: ENE Technology Inc Memory Stick Card Reader Controller
01:04.3 FLASH memory: ENE Technology Inc ENE PCI Secure Digital / MMC Card Reader Controller
02:00.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2860
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 01)

skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

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Re: Feeling kinda blue

Welcome to the forums lakersforce.

Please use descriptive thread titles when you post. Other people may be searching for the same problem that you have.

Run VLC from the command line and post any errors that you get when trying to run videos.

lakersforce

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Registered: 2009-01-28

Posts: 12

Re: Feeling kinda blue

This is what I get when I run a movie:

VLC media player 0.9.8a Grishenko
[00000001] main libvlc debug: VLC media player - version 0.9.8a Grishenko - (c) 1996-2008 the VideoLAN team
[00000001] main libvlc debug: libvlc was configured with ./configure  '--prefix=/usr' '--enable-dvdread' '--enable-dvdnav' '--enable-madi' '--enable-ffmpeg' '--disable-rpath' '--enable-qt4' '--enable-faad' '--enable-alsa' '--enable-skins2' '--enable-dvb' '--enable-dmo' '--with-ffmpeg-faac' '--with-ffmpeg-vorbis' '--with-ffmpeg-dts' '--with-ffmpeg-ogg' '--with-ffmpeg-theora' '--enable-v4l' '--enable-theora' '--enable-flac' '--enable-snapshot' '--enable-hal' '--enable-dbus' '--enable-ogg' '--enable-dbus-control' '--enable-shared' '--enable-nls' '--enable-lirc' '--enable-shout' '--enable-pvr' '--enable-release' '--program-suffix=' '--with-dv-raw1394=/usr/include/libraw1394' '--enable-fast-install' 'CFLAGS=-march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe' 'CXXFLAGS=-march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe'
[00000001] main libvlc debug: translation test: code is "C"
[00000001] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
 m_el[mi_level] == NULL
 arrrrrrrrrrrrrg Up cannot escape itself

capnfabs

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From: Wollongong, Australia

Registered: 2008-12-27

Posts: 32

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Re: Feeling kinda blue

great pun. but descriptive topic titles are a good idea

have you tried running vlc under a different window manager? or have you tried using other movie player programs? (just to see if there's a common issue)?

Nezmer

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Registered: 2008-10-24

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Re: Feeling kinda blue

have you tried running vlc under a different window manager? or have you tried using other movie player programs? (just to see if there's a common issue)?

Or different video output modules .

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txus

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Registered: 2008-01-23

Posts: 78

Re: Feeling kinda blue

Are you running xfce with the integrated composite manager? If you are, try disabling it.

Dheart

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From: Sofia, Bulgaria

Registered: 2006-10-26

Posts: 956

Re: Feeling kinda blue

Happened to me once, except output got greenish, not blueish. Temporally fixed it by switching from xv video output to gl. After xserver restart it fixed itself and started working normally with xv again.

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lakersforce

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Registered: 2009-01-28

Posts: 12

Re: Feeling kinda blue

Thanks for the replies.

I switched to mplayer and it's not an issue anymore.

MoonSwan

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From: Great White North

Registered: 2008-01-23

Posts: 881

Re: Feeling kinda blue

so mark this as solved using mplayer or resolved so others won't waste time looking here for answers since you didn't end up solving the underlying issue.