Video has lost color. Ubuntu 8.04

[Karl Larsen]

On 04/05/2010 08:32 PM, Tuxman wrote:
> All videos now play in B&W from all players.
>
> DVDs in the optical drive, and AVI and MKV files are in B&W. Mplayer,
> VLC, and MoviePlayer are B&W.
>
> Everything else is normal, thumbnails of videos included.
>
> I suspect a recent change I made has caused this, but don't know where
> to point.
> I recently installed just about very video editing and DVD authoring
> program trying to learn what to use for a niece's school project. I
> didn't notice the change when it happened, and I've forgotten the
> changes I made.
>
> I searched in Synaptic for all of the installed video codecs I could
> find, and reinstalled all the suspects, but that hasn't helped.
>
> This is an old install of 8.04, and I'll installing 10.04 in several
> months, so I can wait if needed, but I would like to know the culprit.
>
>
> Thanks
>
>    
         I have available a fully updated 8.04 which is working just 
fine. What you need to do is run in a terminal lspci while in 8.04 and 
report what it shows for a video pci hardware.  Then we can better help 
you with your video problem. Please also check out if your sound works.

     I am on 10.04 now and it is a great version!

73 Karl


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