Nico,<br><br>Thanks. I guess it seems like I solved this issue in the past by installing new codecs, but perhaps in the same move I installed new versions of drivers and failed to realize it. I'll give this a try when I get a chance. Thanks for the tip.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/19/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Nicolas Will</b> <<a href="mailto:nico@youplala.net">nico@youplala.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 14:47 -0400, Jonathan Rogers wrote:<br>> In my experience, media players such as mplayer, xine, and MythTV will<br>> either refuse to play a file entirely or show no video in the case of<br>
> a<br>> missing or malfunctioning codec. I don't think "pink/green squiggly<br>> horizontal lines" are typically a software codec problem.<br><br><br>absolutely right.<br><br>><br>> However, I think you might have a video driver problem.
<br><br>hence my original question about X driver status.<br><br><br>> I have Gutsy<br>> (Ubuntu 7.10) running on two machines. My desktop machine has an<br>> Nvidia<br>> 7900GS based PCIe card an I'm using Nvidia's driver version
100.14.19<br>> from Ubuntu's nvidia-glx-new package. I see green and pink squiggly<br>> lines in a video window at seemingly random times.<br><br>You know what, I'm an idiot with a very short memory... I had the same
<br>problem as your with my 7100GS.<br><br>I was running the nvidia-glx-new (100.14.19) restricted driver. Whenever<br>I started watching live TV, it was fine. When I switched to videos using<br>mplayer, weird color and lines. If I restarted, I could play the mplayer
<br>stuff fine, but going to live TV gave me back the pink stuff.<br><br>I solved the issue by using nvidia-glx (9xxx series). Problem solved.<br><br>I should document this; at least on my web page.<br><br>Nico<br><br>_______________________________________________
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