ubuntu video messed up

kittysacattack · 04-24-2008, 09:13 AM

Everything was working fine, but now all my videos have a transparent green line about 15 percent of the screen going horizontally, in all my media players. Has anyone encoutered anything like this before. In Ubuntu.

jammiedodger · 05-06-2008, 04:08 PM

Sounds like a codec issue. Try updating the codec pack that you have. But first un-install the one you have installed... and make note of the version number so that when you find a new updated codec pack, it isn't the same one.

tlarkin · 05-06-2008, 04:10 PM

What files are you trying to play with what media player? Are these from a windows media player originally? May have some crappy DRM codec on them which is causing crappy play back.

jammiedodger · 05-06-2008, 04:16 PM

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Originally Posted by tlarkin

What files are you trying to play with what media player? Are these from a windows media player originally? May have some crappy DRM codec on them which is causing crappy play back.

I don't think it will be a "DRM" issue

tlarkin · 05-06-2008, 04:45 PM

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Originally Posted by jammiedodger

I don't think it will be a "DRM" issue

If they were encoded with WMP then there most likely is a DRM issue

jammiedodger · 05-06-2008, 05:28 PM

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Originally Posted by tlarkin

If they were encoded with WMP then there most likely is a DRM issue

He does say "all of his videos" in "all of his media players"... so I don't think its a "DRM issue" but rather its the case of something wrong with the codec files itself... perhaps its just a bug.

tlarkin · 05-06-2008, 05:37 PM

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Originally Posted by jammiedodger

He does say "all of his videos" in "all of his media players"... so I don't think its a "DRM issue" but rather its the case of something wrong with the codec files itself... perhaps its just a bug.

99% of this forum's users are windows users that try out Linux. I would say there is a good chance that he is copying them from a windows box. Of course I am totally guessing, but when he says that they once worked (I assume he meant on the windows side) and now they don't, I am deducting they were copied from a windows install.

I use VLC on all my machines and have never once needed any type of codec unless it had crappy DRM involved in it.

jammiedodger · 05-06-2008, 05:58 PM

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Originally Posted by tlarkin

99% of this forum's users are windows users that try out Linux. I would say there is a good chance that he is copying them from a windows box. Of course I am totally guessing, but when he says that they once worked (I assume he meant on the windows side) and now they don't, I am deducting they were copied from a windows install.

I use VLC on all my machines and have never once needed any type of codec unless it had crappy DRM involved in it.

Yes the majority of users are windows users... but not every single video will contain the DRM... only the premium videos.

jammiedodger · 05-06-2008, 05:59 PM

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Originally Posted by jammiedodger

Yes the majority of users are windows users... but not every single video will contain the DRM... only the premium videos.

Also perhaps he doen't use VLC

04-24-2008, 09:13 AM	#1 (permalink)
kittysacattack Silver Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 201	ubuntu video messed up Everything was working fine, but now all my videos have a transparent green line about 15 percent of the screen going horizontally, in all my media players. Has anyone encoutered anything like this before. In Ubuntu.

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05-06-2008, 04:08 PM	#2 (permalink)
jammiedodger Bronze Member Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 29	Sounds like a codec issue. Try updating the codec pack that you have. But first un-install the one you have installed... and make note of the version number so that when you find a new updated codec pack, it isn't the same one.

05-06-2008, 04:10 PM	#3 (permalink)
tlarkin VIP Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Kansas City, MO Posts: 6,327	What files are you trying to play with what media player? Are these from a windows media player originally? May have some crappy DRM codec on them which is causing crappy play back.