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brando56894

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From: NYC

Registered: 2008-08-03

Posts: 681

[Solved] Videos Are Overlayed With Flickering Red Checkerboard

This happens with every media player ive tried (mplayer,vlc,kaffeine, etc...) and I cant seem to figure out why. I have all of the non-free codecs from the mplayer website but that didnt seem to fix anything. This is really annoying since whenever I want to watch a movie/tv show off of my HDD  I usually have to boot into windows, since it doesnt happen in windows.

I managed to capture two screenshots while it was happening. It will quickly cycle between the normal picture, all red (which I just found out while taking the screenshot), and a red checkerboard pattern:

Last edited by brando56894 (2009-03-04 00:25:09)

Dheart

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From: Sofia, Bulgaria

Registered: 2006-10-26

Posts: 956

Re: [Solved] Videos Are Overlayed With Flickering Red Checkerboard

Try different video output:

gmplayer MOVIE_NAME -vo gl

OR

gmplayer MOVIE_NAME -vo gl2

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lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: [Solved] Videos Are Overlayed With Flickering Red Checkerboard

Are you using a nvidia card and compositing? If so, try updating your nvidia drivers to 180.29 or 180.35.

toxygen

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Registered: 2008-08-22

Posts: 713

Re: [Solved] Videos Are Overlayed With Flickering Red Checkerboard

I have that red flickering every now and then too.  At least i had it prior to 180.29, I was messing about the mplayer-vdpau package, so I figured it had something to do with that.  i reverted to regular mplayer and updated nvidia drivers and haven't  had it since (that i can remember).  it was mainly happening with mkv or other video with ac3 sound.

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brando56894

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From: NYC

Registered: 2008-08-03

Posts: 681

Re: [Solved] Videos Are Overlayed With Flickering Red Checkerboard

before i went to class this afternoon i reverted back to kwin and played the same movie and it worked perfectly. all i have to do is update the drivers and everything should work fine thanks!

brando56894

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From: NYC

Registered: 2008-08-03

Posts: 681

Re: [Solved] Videos Are Overlayed With Flickering Red Checkerboard

ive updated to the newest nvidia drivers and it still happens in both kde and compiz

ugkbunb

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Registered: 2009-02-26

Posts: 227

Re: [Solved] Videos Are Overlayed With Flickering Red Checkerboard

This happened to be on ubuntu the only temp fix was rebooting and it seemed to stop for awhile... since installing arch I have yet to experience it.

brando56894

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From: NYC

Registered: 2008-08-03

Posts: 681

Re: [Solved] Videos Are Overlayed With Flickering Red Checkerboard

i installed the newest nvidia drivers and after a reboot it seemed to stop...

brando56894

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From: NYC

Registered: 2008-08-03

Posts: 681

Re: [Solved] Videos Are Overlayed With Flickering Red Checkerboard

any idea on what to change th ouput to in kaffeine?