SOLVED: Blank or Dark Reddish Video on Ubuntu Karmic with ATI Graphics
I have just recently splashed out on a Dell Studio 17 which comes with ATI HD3650 graphics. I would have been happier if they still did this laptop with Intel graphics which, in my experience, work hassle free out of the box.
I took my hard drive out of my old laptop which had Intel GMA graphics and put it in my shiny new Studio 17. Everything seemed to be fine until I tried playing a video in Totem or VLC. The video was very dark and reddish. I tried installing the proprietry crap fglrx which seems to suck at multi head if the external monitor has a higher resolution than the laptop screen. With this fglrx driver enabled the video completely disappeared and left just a blank black window in Totem.
The solution is easy, run
$ gstreamer-properties
On the Video tab on Default Output select X Window System (No Xv).
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THANK YOU SO MUCH!
I freaking tried everything! Uninstall and reinstall players, ATI proprietary driver, and a bunch of other stuff that I don’t even understand.
It would be nice if someone would post a comment about what this does.
Thanks again!!!
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Thanks mate, worked like a charm on Ubuntu 11.04 with ATI Radeon HD5770.