video playback breaking up

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Husse

Re: video playback breaking up

Post by Husse »

Two things immediately comes to mind
The video driver
and compiz
If you have an ATI or nvidia card you really have to install the proprietary driver for a good result
Got to Control Center > Hardware > Hardware drivers
Sometimes Compiz makes it hard for you
Go to Control Center > Appearance > Visual effects - set to none
Revert the setting when you don't watch video if you want the "extras"
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Re: video playback breaking up

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Husse wrote:Go to Control Center > Appearance > Visual effects - set to none
Revert the setting when you don't watch video if you want the "extras"
this has become habit for me. :D

I love the compiz eye candy but, compiz doesn't play nice with video's (yet anyway).
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