How to fix video playback showing green screen with just audio?
When I attempt to view a video file, I get a solid green screen with audio, regardless of the application or file format. This happens with .mp4, .gp, and .dv files.
I am unable to use live web cam with Skype, also getting a solid green screen. I am using 32-bit Ubuntu 12.04 on an iMac.
There is no problem viewing videos on the Internet, i.e. YouTube, etc., and the files I upload to YouTube play normally. I only have problems viewing local files. I do not use VLC Media Player. How do I go about changing the hardware acceleration?
03 Answers
While the root of the problem is likely hidden in your video drivers, a quick fix is to just disable hardware acceleration in Flash. You might experience a slight decrease in performance, but you'll actually get video working again without going to too much trouble.
In VLC Media Player:
Click on Tools --> Preferences
Click on the Video tab
Uncheck the "Accelerated video output (Ovelay) box.
Save these settings and it should work immediately.
For Youtube videos you could do this:
1) Right click on youtube video.
2) Go to settings.
3) UNCHECK the 'Enable hardware acceleration' tickbox.
4) Refeshed and works fine now.
I also recommend you to install/reinstall your video/display driver.
0I have tried Mukund's answer and same other answers and its working, but i am just extending the answer that below follow is worked for me.
- Go to Tools → Preferences.
- Select Input/Codes → Hardware-accelerated decoding. In this, select the Disable option.
After restart the VLC and its should work. I hope this will help someone.
For me the above answer didn't work, but as I figured out, in my case the problem with green blinking of the screen were caused by enabled transparency (I am using a tiling WM with Compton which enables transparency for inactive windows).
So I could disable it. The other solution, that I gone with, is running VLC in a separate XServer, like xinit /usr/bin/vlc ./MyVideo.mkv -- :1 vt8.
