[xubuntu-users] Video players all show black screen

[Ric Moore]

On 06/28/2012 03:11 AM, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 11:52 PM, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Has anyone seen this?  My mplayer is showing nothing but black in the
>> video of a video playback - AVIs, MP4s and WMVs fail, but MPGs, MOVs
>> and FLVs are fine.  Also, my VLC also shows black for DVD ICOs and
>> pretty much everything except a few that play really jrekily and in a
>> tiny fragment of the window.
>>
>> I have no idea what happened - mplayer failed between two plays of the
>> same video - the first play worked and the second one was blank.
>>
>
> I poked around and reinstalled all the codecs that were on the
> machine.  I did libavcodec53 first, and that seems to have solved the
> "play a video in its native sized window" problem, but if I go full
> screen, the video freezes on the last small frame and the rest of the
> screen stays black.
>
> Same problem persists after I reinstalled all the codecs, and mplayer,
> too.  VLC still has the same problems.
>
> I haven't tried rebooting, but I feel I shouldn't have to....

Didn't you know we're keeping up with Win3.1 "Please Reboot"?
"The Blue Screen of Death" is in beta on a ppa for 12.10. We'll corner 
the MS market yet. <swears> Ric



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