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Carl Hudkins wrote: |
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>On Sun July 31 2005 15:16, Mike S wrote: |
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>>I have used now 3 different distributions, ubuntu, debian, and now |
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>>gentoo, and in all of them the same thing has happened, whenever I try |
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>>to play a dvd my screen gets a yellowish tint, my teminals that may be |
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>>open get distoted colors, (usually red) for the text in them, and it |
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>>won't play. Has anyone gotten this to work? |
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> What color depth are you running X in? I recall having severe problems |
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>playing any sort of video in 24-bit color, so then I changed to 16-bit and I |
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>have no problems. I do notice that when playing most videos the colors of my |
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>desktop background get messed up, but I consider that a trivial problem and |
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>ignore it. (In a couple of hours the background changes, anyway.) |
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> If you run "xine --verbose dvd://" in a command window, do you get any |
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>helpful information about what it's doing or where it quits? |
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xine doesn't quit, totem does, but xine doesn't, xine just plays a blank |
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screen. I think I am in 24-bit depth and I will look into changing that. |
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Thanks a bunch. |
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--Mike S |
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