Screen Flickers when play videos

[amiller2571]

Hello. I hoping someone can help me with this. When ever I play a video in window or full screen mode the video will flicker nonstop.It's not my hole computer screen just the video itself unless it in full screen mode. It started doing this when I upgrade to Ubuntu 8.10.

[linuxfault]

Same here, I just installed 8.10 yesterday. I changed the video output to X (from the media player) but then the video has a really low fps rate in full screen. Any ideas on that?

[binbash]

go to your player preferences, set the video output to X11

[linuxfault]

I did that. Rendering in full screen is horrible.

[mc4man]

Unless there are restricted or proprietary, drivers available that your not using,then pretty much the same deal, see here (turn off compiz (desktop effects))

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1022694

[linuxfault]

That worked. Thanks. My fairly old Dell wasn't too keen on those effects anyway