[NTLUG:Discuss] MPG movies not playing

[Ron Hamilton]

On Sat, 27 Jul 2002 16:50:42 -0700
Steve <steve at cyberianhamster.com> wrote:

> 
> Sometimes, I get sound with no video. Sometimes not much of anything. 
> But I never see any video. Screen's just blank. Tried using Xine and 
> XMovie (on a Mandrake 9.0 Beta), but no luck. Doesn't seem like it's a 
> problem of a particular application as opposed to something basic in my 
> Linux setup. Files open fine in MacOS X or Windows so I know it's not 
> the file.
> 
> Sort of a basic function that I can't do. :P Any suggestions?

I had a similar problem before with all my video players as well.  Screen was all green and stuff.. Changing the color depth from 24b to 16b did the trick.  Now everything is hunky dory!  And yeah, I use mostly mplayer as well.

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