Martin Fleming » GStreamer http://martin-fleming.co.uk Sharing my experiences and knowledge Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:08:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 SOLVED: Blank or Dark Reddish Video on Ubuntu Karmic with ATI Graphics http://martin-fleming.co.uk/2009/11/solved-blank-or-dark-reddish-video-on-ubuntu-karmic-with-ati-graphics/ http://martin-fleming.co.uk/2009/11/solved-blank-or-dark-reddish-video-on-ubuntu-karmic-with-ati-graphics/#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:59:29 +0000 Marty (admin) http://martin-fleming.co.uk/?p=97 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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