Re: Blue movies - literally!

[Raj Kiran Grandhi <grajkiran@gmail.com>]

andy wrote:
> I am attempting to play a video file, but the image is just varying 
> shades of blue. I had this once before and logged out and back in, which 
> cleared it temporarily. However, now it has come back again. This is 
> despite the mediaplayer I am using - kaffeine or mplayer or vlc. What do 
> I look for to even debug it?
>
> Thanks
>
> A

It could be a hardware issue. Try changing the video output driver to a 
software based one (`-vo x11 -zoom' in mplayer should do) and see if it 
helps.

Alternatively, you can try playing from a newly created user account to 
check if it has anything to do with your configuration setup.

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