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Dennis
Asked: 2011-02-08 05:36:51 +0800 CST

All video players display black screen

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I'm working in 10.04 Lucid. All my video players (Movie Player and VLC) and the preview windows in editors (OpenShot and Pitivi) will only display a black screen when playing a video. The sound is fine and the videos work fine on other computers.

I have tried multiple formats from varying sources .MOV taken from old ffmpeg projects, .AVI straight from a camera, .MP4 using h.264 from OpenShot on another system, .OGV from a gtk-recordmydesktop session on this very computer. I even get a pure black screen in the viewer when starting a remote session in VNC.

This box has a GeForce 8400 GS using the proprietary Nvidia drivers in case it may be a card problem or setting.

10.04

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I'm at a loss. The best suggestions I have is try re-installing the drivers or trying the non-proprietary nv driver. If the problem is still there with the nv driver, then it is most likely not a driver issue.

    Good Luck

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  2. I found this worked.

    1. Open the Configuration Editor by running 

      gconf-editor

      in the terminal.

    2. Navigate to system → gstreamer → 0.10 → default

    3. Double-click on videosink and change the setting from autovideosink to ximagesink

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