Problem playin multimedia!! : (

[srikar]

When i play standard video formats(.avi, .mpeg) with vlc ,kaffeine and mplayer, i can only see a distorted video . Sound quality is same but the video is distorted(as u can see in attached screenshot).

I installed all the essential codecs 4m medibuntu . I was successful at installing them(i mean there was no error).

I dont know why this is hapening.Any suggestions

[Snowhog]

Re: Problem playin multimedia!! : (

Review Medibuntu completely to ensure that you have loaded all required libraries and codecs to both, play and hear, multimedia files.

[Rog131]

Re: Problem playin multimedia!! : (


1) Hardware/ Hardware settings

Xorg.0.log is log file for X Windowing Server. It is in /var/log/.

K > System > KSystemLog

or

Just looking errors:

:~$ grep "(EE)" /var/log/Xorg.0.log

Just looking warnings:

:~$ grep "(WW)" /var/log/Xorg.0.log

Xvinfo in the konsole:

:~$ xvinfo

From X video extension
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_video_extension

The X video extension, often abbreviated as XVideo or Xv, is a video output mechanism for the X Window System. Its main use today is to rescale video playback in hardware (namely in the hardware of the graphics card), in order to enlarge a given video or to watch it in full screen mode. Without XVideo, this scaling would have to be done in software, which is possible but requires a considerable amount of processing power, sometimes to the point of slowing down/degrading the video stream.

2) What programs tell:

Start Kaffeine(xine)/mplayer/VLC in the konsole -> there should be information what is wrong.

Note
If you get something like:

X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 168
Major opcode: 148
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 168
Major opcode: 148
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device

Not error but..
Topic: X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 168
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=7964.0


if you are using VLC:

vlc --verbose=2

More: vlc --longhelp

-H, --longhelp print help for VLC and all it's modules (can be combined with --advanced)

-v, --verbose <integer> Verbosity (0,1,2)

[Israfel_21]

Re: Problem playin multimedia!! : (

One day working better than never, next day barely working for no reason.
I got the same problem (sound but no video in Kaffeine) and I removed (even purged) kaffeine, kaffeine-xine and even other xine stuff, removed /home/user/.kde/share/apps/kaffeine and reinstalled the packages. That worked for some people but the problem still remains in my case.
Any suggestions?

[Snowhog]

Re: Problem playin multimedia!! : (

Review Medibuntu completely to ensure that you have loaded all required libraries and codecs to both, play and hear, multimedia files.

Then, review my HOWTO: Get commercial DVD playback in Kaffeine and ensure that each package identified is installed.

I know that by following both posts functional commercial DVD playback works. I'm running Feisty and Gutsy, and my commercial DVDs play in Kaffeine just fine. I also have fully functional mp3 playblack using Amarok.

[Israfel_21]

Re: Problem playin multimedia!! : (

I followed the HOWTO but the problem is still there

[srikar]

Re: Problem playin multimedia!! : (

another problem>> wen i try to play videos in vlc the videos are playing slowly(stucked manner). Wat may be the problem