[ubuntu] Can't watch movies in ubuntu but audio is fine.

[llawwehttam]

Just tried to play a dvd and the audio is fine but the video is just black. Its the same for any video regardless of format.

 

It was working fine yesterday.

 

The only thing I have done recently is to install the latest nvidia drivers for my graphics card.

 

Totem and VLC both are black and MPlayer gives the error:

 

Fatal error!

Error opening/initialising the selected videeo_out(-vo) device

 

Any help appreciated.

[llawwehttam]

After changing the vo_driver line in ~/.mplayer/gui.conf to:

Code:

 

vo_driver = "x11"

 

mplayer works. I would really like to get the others working too though.

[llawwehttam]

Update:

I now have got vlc working by changing the output in the video tab to x11 instead of default.

 

Is there a similar setting in totem as I can't find one.

[llawwehttam]

Update:

 

 

ITS FIXED!!!!!!!!!

 

I ran the command

sudo apt-get purge totem*

then made a note of everything it removed and then ran

sudo apt-get install (everything it removed)

 

Now all is back to normal

[powdarrmonkey]

I was going to suggest this but you beat me to it. Apt has a reinstall command though, which sanity-checks the file list and then runs the maintainer scripts again, so you don't lose configuration (purge removes it).

 

Other suggestion: try the totem-xine package if you are using totem-gstreamer.