Watching Video with any program Totem, gXine, VLC, Mplayer screen corruption with ProSavage8 on Gutsy

Asked by Francesco Guerra

I Have a Packard Bell Easy Note E1266.

00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P/KN266 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP]
00:09.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB-710/2/4 Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
00:11.6 Communication controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 80)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 74)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. VT8375 [ProSavage8 KM266/KL266]

When Watching Video with any program (Totem, gXine, VLC, Mplayer) I get some level of screen corruption, a screenshot here:

http://img88.imageshack.us/my.php?image=schermata1eu3.png

The system itself works perfectly.
Fresh install of Feisty upgraded to Gutsy.

solutions to this problem?

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Best Andrea Corbellini (andrea.corbellini) said :
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Open 'gstreamer-properties', go to the 'Video' section and select 'X Window (No Xv)' as plugin for the default output.

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Francesco Guerra (guerra-francesco) said :
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Thanks Andrea Corbellini, that solved my question.