video files do not play correctly

**AlexDudko** · November 26th, 2011

Have you tried some other software? I have seen the same behavior in Fedora-16 but it occurs only in Totem (didn't try vlc), but other players work just fine.

**kurja** · November 26th, 2011

Originally Posted by AlexDudko

Have you tried some other software? I have seen the same behavior in Fedora-16 but it occurs only in Totem (didn't try vlc), but other players work just fine.

I saw no difference when I tried vlc. Now I've put back the X.Org radeon drivers, and now videos seem to play, shall we say, sufficiently.

Only now I can't get any 3d acceleration. Playing UFOai with the older card I got a semi decent 40-50fps with all the fancy shadings etc turned off (not that the game would have actually worked with them on), but now I'm getting less than 10fps - even as it is a turn based game, that's just horrible. I started another thread about it though, http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1886853

**sudodus** · November 26th, 2011

Try LXDE! This desktop interface is lightweight and allows more of your computing power to your applications.

**kurja** · November 26th, 2011

Originally Posted by sudodus

Try LXDE! This desktop interface is lightweight and allows more of your computing power to your applications.

Thanks for the tip, but wouldn't I be treating the symptoms instead of the problem?

**WasMeHere** · November 26th, 2011

Originally Posted by kurja

Thanks for the tip, but wouldn't I be treating the symptoms instead of the problem?

Well, yes you are right,but it might help until you find a good driver for your graphics card. If you 'only' install LXDE as an extra desktop environment, it costs very little to try.

**kurja** · January 6th, 2012

I just noticed that *some* files do play correctly, weird thing is that a file that does play correctly is a "dv avi" file from a video camera while other similar files do not play correctly. Is there a tool that shows me which codec a file needs/uses? Because I think that this is a codec issue.

**WasMeHere** · January 13th, 2012

Normally the video players show what codec is used (there is a menu entry for it). Often the file browser (Nautilus) can display it too (right click on the file and select properties ...)

You can also find it running mplayer or ffmpeg from the command line while playing or trying to convert. Both of these tools can manage a lot of encodings (codecs). Also vlc can manage a lot of encodings. I hope that at least one of these tools can manage your files.