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#1 2007-12-30 20:07:50
- finferflu
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[SOLVED] Green screen when playing video
Hi, ever since I have reinstalled Arch, I'm having issues playing videos in any format. I get a dull green screen, and I can only hear the audio. This happens with VLC, Totem and Mplayer (the ones I have tried so far).
I have already tried to reinstall libxv (as indicated in this thread), but that doesn't change the situation.
Do you have any suggestion?
Thanks for your time 
Last edited by finferflu (2007-12-31 12:21:40)
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#2 2007-12-30 20:16:31
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Re: [SOLVED] Green screen when playing video
That's IRISH!!
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#3 2007-12-30 20:22:32
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Re: [SOLVED] Green screen when playing video
Any error messages if you try to start mplayer/vlc from the command line?
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#4 2007-12-30 20:32:18
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Re: [SOLVED] Green screen when playing video
No, no errors, just normal messages, like this, for example:
VLC media player 0.8.6d Janus
mdb:1, lastbuf:0 skipping granule 0Have you Syued today?
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#5 2007-12-30 20:37:40
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Re: [SOLVED] Green screen when playing video
That's the best thing I could find by googling...
http://xinehq.de/index.php/faq#BLUESCREEN
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#6 2007-12-30 20:42:10
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Re: [SOLVED] Green screen when playing video
Thanks for the tip, but the only thing that changed is that the screen is now blue 
Obviously this makes me think that the problem is related to Xorg, more than to the codecs...
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#7 2007-12-31 08:21:08
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Re: [SOLVED] Green screen when playing video
For me it worked by changing the color depth from 16 to 24...
May be worth a try 
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#8 2007-12-31 12:21:19
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Re: [SOLVED] Green screen when playing video
For me it worked by changing the color depth from 16 to 24...
May be worth a try
Wow! That worked!
I would have never thought about that...
Thanks a lot 
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