Ubuntu Questions.

Meloco · 11 Jan 2009 at 23:15

Just 2 questions/problems I am having at the moment.

1) Every film I try and play back I get constant flashing (tried with VLC, Mplayer, and default movie player)

2) How do I get themes to work

??

Meloco · 11 Jan 2009 at 23:36

Thanks, I tried the X11 (googled after i posted

). It seems to be working now thanks

.

Also, I swear in previous releases in system - > preferences there was an option for visuals (where you could tweak each visual) it seems to have disappeared? All I am able to do now is select from 3 different options, rather than customise fully what extra visuals I want.

Meloco · 11 Jan 2009 at 23:55

Thanks for the help :-)

.

For anyone else new, there are some amazing programs to be found in:

Applications -> Add/Remove - > click on drop down bar, select all available applications.

Meloco · 12 Jan 2009 at 11:57

Getting a new problem with playing films.

If I try and skip a film it will nearly always cut out after a few seconds?

Meloco · 13 Jan 2009 at 11:59

It exits the film, and just shows the main player/splash screen.

Meloco · 13 Jan 2009 at 12:40

eXor said:
All players or just a particular one? What is the source? DVD?

p.s. Were you ever in #Lomac on IRC?

Edit : NM. Your trust e-mail suggests that you were. Small world, lol.

Yes i was

. Still play it on hyperlobby sometimes.

It's with all players, and it happens with .avi's / .mkv's. Not tried DVD's yet.

Meloco · 13 Jan 2009 at 12:50

yashiro said:
Some players crash if you skip through large files too fast. Usually when they're not indexed properly. Don't worry about it, it happens from time to time.

Try some other players and update your codec libs when you can.

Now, if you are using a video card that has hardware acceleration do not set your display mode to x11 in VLC or whtever. Unless you are OK with terrible looking video of course.
Install an app called Compiz-icon. It runs in your tray.
Click this and select metacity as window manager, then run your video.

The flickering is due to Compiz desktop effects conflicting with the video. This should be fixed in few months but it's complicated so use this workaround.

Thanks very much, i was using the X11 codec due to flickering, But I will try this workaround instead.

Is there any way to index my files on Ubuntu?

Meloco · 13 Jan 2009 at 13:45

Thanks, the vid workaround appears to be working. But, unfortunately, still when playing back video if I want to skip to a certain part of the film it just locks up and then goes back to the vlc splash screen (or whichever player i'm using).

Btw, if you switch to vista, then back to ubuntu is it supposed to revert back to a 'default'. ?

edit: My search indexing wasn't on by default. But now is.

Meloco · 13 Jan 2009 at 13:54

eXor said:
I'm setting up mplayer on Debian ( Lenny ). I'll test if I am able to seek without problems.

Could you also let me know which codec you are using (as the majority seem to be X11)

Edit: In ubuntu, the original movie player seems to be working fine, in terms of skipping to which part of the film I want to go. VLC still has a problem.