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Weird Video Playback Issue - Green on Second Monitor

Asked by Matthew Craig

I have this really weird problem. When I play back some video types, it plays fine on my first monitor and it is all green and scrambled on my second monitor. I can move the video back and forth and it goes from good to bad to good again. I'd like to file a bug report, but I have no idea what could be causing the issue!

I am using the new Gutsy (AMD64), with the Ubuntu-supplied restricted NVIDIA driver 100.14.19, I configured my two Dell 2005WP / 2007WP with the Screen and Graphics tool, and I am having the problem with Totem and Firefox embedded video. I even installed Xine as a workaround and it does it there, too. I have not seen this issue with .OGG video files, it may be worth noting.

Any ideas how I can track down the root of this problem? This didn't happen with Feisty, but there have been so many changes with Gutsy that I don't know where to start troubleshooting.

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Matthew Craig (matthew-t-craig) said : 		#1

I think I isolated the problem. I tried switching out gstreamer, codecs, and the totem player. None of these made a difference. So, I have concluded it must be the new Ubuntu NVIDIA driver, by process of elimination.

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Matthew Craig (matthew-t-craig) said : 		#2

I am still living with the issue. I find that restarting X will fix the issue. Also, I wanted to note that this does happen with .OGG files, too. Finally, I wanted to mention that the videos will generally only play in the monitor where they were started (double clicked in the Nautilus menu). When the video player is dragged to a second monitor, the video freezes or goes scrambled green. When the video is dragged back to the original monitor, the video plays normally. The video can be between the two screens and only the part of the video on the original monitor will play.

The audio is completely unaffected by this issue.

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Matthew Craig (matthew-t-craig) said : 		#3

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=599581
Similar problem.

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Matthew Craig (matthew-t-craig) said : 		#4

Opened a bug report:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/162343

Closing question.