Re: Blue movies - literally!

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

andy wrote:
> Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
> > 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.
> Hi Raj
>
> Yes, this *does* help. Now, how would I make this the default for apps 
> like vlc xine kaffeine and all of the rest? I guess that it is a 
> question of setting this up as a system default. Any ideas?

You can put it in /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf or ~/.mplayer/config. The 
lines to add are:

vo=x11
zoom=yes

I am not so sure of vlc and others. Be aware, however, that the software 
based rendering and scaling are significantly slower and highly cpu 
intensive. It may be worth the effort to troubleshoot and video driver 
issues you may be facing regarding hardware rendering.

> Cheers
>
> Andy


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