I am getting little dots in video playback with all movie files on any player. Help would be appreciated.

Have you overclocked your graphics card?
If so, these dots can be artifacts which means that it can't cope with the speed.

Check that your resolution and other parameters in <strong>/etc/X11/xorg.conf</strong> are within specification for your card.

OK.
I went into the directory and found the file. I opened it and looked at my graphics card. Here is what was on the file.

Section "Device"
 Identifier "Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller"
 Driver "i810"
 BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection

I don't know that card personally, but I guess it's an onboard chip?

A little further down in that file, there is a section called "Screen". Look at DefaultDepth and the corresponding Modes in that Depth in the following SubSection(s) "Display". Check if they're inside allowable limits.

Also see this page - it may contain the solution in your case: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/i915Driver

OK
I looked at the file and saw this.

Section "Screen"
 Identifier "Default Screen"
 Device "Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller"
 Monitor "DELL E153FP"
 DefaultDepth 16
 SubSection "Display"
  Depth 1
  Modes "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
 EndSubSection
 SubSection "Display"
  Depth 4
  Modes "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
 EndSubSection
 SubSection "Display"
  Depth 8
  Modes "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
 EndSubSection
 SubSection "Display"
  Depth 15
  Modes "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
 EndSubSection
 SubSection "Display"
  Depth 16
  Modes "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
 EndSubSection
 SubSection "Display"
  Depth 24
  Modes "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
 EndSubSection
EndSection

How will i know if it is inside allowable limits.

That looks ok to me, can you provide a screenshot of what your video looks like?

Something new to add to this question. I installed an updated driver to my system. i910 i believe is the name. Well anyways, since installing the driver, the dots have disappeared.
But it brought up a new question.
When i have desktop effects enabled, my video players wont even open more than less play a video. If I turn off the effects, i can watch everything fine without much issue.
I am starting to get angry that I installed Ubuntu in the first place.

Oh, the name of the driver was i915.

Yes, that's the driver I linked to. Glad that it fixed the problem you haved with white dots.

Please mark this problem solved and open a new thread with the new problem.

Since you haven't opened a new thread, can you try running a video program like totem from the terminal please? And tell us the output?

kyle@kyle-desktop:~$ totem
The program 'totem' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'.
  (Details: serial 95 error_code 11 request_code 141 minor_code 19)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
kyle@kyle-desktop:~$

So now what

I've had this problem too, while running desktop effects. Try disabling them, and then try again. Also try mplayer/vlc not just totem.

I just had this same problem on my Dell D420 using the i810 driver. I discovered that i could fix the problem by either disabling Compiz or changing the DefaultDepth in /etc/X11/xorg.conf to 24 from 16. I had changed mine to 16 to try to get Cedega to work properly.

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