Re: VLC player doesn't playback correctly

[Joel Roth <joelz@pobox.com>]

On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 03:22:00PM +0000, Camale??n wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 16:35:33 +0200, Matthias Andersson wrote:
> 
> > I've installed vlc 1.1.3 according to the instructions at
> > www.videolan.org/vlc/download-debian.html for unstable.
> >
> > Now the problem is that all videos play black and white and the picture
> > is crammed to a quarter of the window to the left. I've tried all the
> > different settings but to no avail.
> 
> Black/White & jolted video
> http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=67743&p=225152
> 
> And maybe also:
> 
> Important notice for Debian/Ubuntu users
> http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=70719

You missed the most important one :-)

	http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=59892 

The problem is discussed here:

	http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=528365

This solution is:

	apt-get install vlc-plugin-sdl

	vlc -V sdl somefile.avi

If this works, you can set the driver in ~/.config/vlc/vlcrc:

	# Video output module (string)
	vout=sdl

Let me know if it helps.

Cheers!

-- 
Joel Roth