when i see videos a blue(striped)scrren appears in regular intervals of time

[varun]

Binary package hint: totem

when i open media player and play the video a blue(striped) screen appears i regular intervals.
I am using ubuntu 8.14

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Nov 11 14:55:39 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/totem-gstreamer
Package: totem-gstreamer 2.22.1-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: totem
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-21-generic x86_64

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report, does using gst-launch playbin uri=URL to play the video works correctly? do you get the issue on any video or only on some specific one?

[Tom (tom6)]

Maybe try

easy fix:
>run gstreamer-properties
>click on video output (or something like that)
>under plugin select X Window System (no Xv)

then restart totem.

I don't know if it is the same problem but sounds similar. I was going to say "Ubuntu 8.14 wow, can i get one" but then i noticed the details under the question. You're using "DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04" buddy. Bless ya, 8.10 doesn't seem to be as stable as 8.04 which was/is great but that's probably just me doing stupid things.

[Tom (tom6)]

If it does work then it's thanks to Trab if it doesn't then its my bad for not understanding some intricacy. Good luck :)

[AlbertoDAU (davidavila147)]

Same problem here, Im using Ubuntu 8.04. and a s3Graphics Prosavage DDR video card, with the controller Ubuntu installed.
The same happens in Totem and MPlayer with some .avi videos.
I saw the easy fix Tom wrote on 2008-11-20, but Im new to Ubuntu and didnt know how to do it.
Thank you