ubuntu video messed up

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kittysacattack

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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.
 
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. ;)
 
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.
 
tlarkin said:
If they were encoded with WMP then there most likely is a DRM issue
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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.
 
jammiedodger said:
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.
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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.
 
tlarkin said:
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.
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Yes the majority of users are windows users... but not every single video will contain the DRM... only the premium videos.
 
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