Beryl causes mysterious blue dots in video

quincy_the_penquin · 10-29-2006, 10:53 AM

When I try to play a video, in both xine and mplayer, the video appears to have blue dots scattered all over it. I suspected this was a problem with Beryl, so I restarted KDE without it and Emerald. The movies played perfectly. Then I started Beryl and Emerald again. I noticed that when I was using Beryl, if the only window on the desktop was mplayer or xine, the blue dots disappeared. I don't want to have to minimize all apps while playing videos, and I still want to run Beryl. How can I make the blue dots go away? I'm running Beryl using AiGLX and Kubuntu Edgy. The problem happened with any type of video format I tried.

BoyWonder410 · 11-16-2006, 02:27 PM

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Originally Posted by quincy_the_penquin

When I try to play a video, in both xine and mplayer, the video appears to have blue dots scattered all over it. I suspected this was a problem with Beryl, so I restarted KDE without it and Emerald. The movies played perfectly. Then I started Beryl and Emerald again. I noticed that when I was using Beryl, if the only window on the desktop was mplayer or xine, the blue dots disappeared. I don't want to have to minimize all apps while playing videos, and I still want to run Beryl. How can I make the blue dots go away? I'm running Beryl using AiGLX and Kubuntu Edgy. The problem happened with any type of video format I tried.

anyone solved this problem? i'm having the exact same problem, plus if the xine/mplayer/whatever window doesnt have focus it goes blue.

quincy_the_penquin · 11-17-2006, 04:00 PM

Some video drivers, as it turns out, don't seem to work right with Beryl (at least on a few lucky computers). Try switching the video driver that your favourite media player uses over to "gl", or "gl2". Those drivers made the dots go away for me.

quincy_the_penquin · 12-22-2006, 08:02 PM

X11/Xshm works too.

dontbugme · 12-23-2006, 10:09 PM

When I had this problem, I changed the bpp from 16 to 24bpp and no more blue dots when using -vo xv.

Change:

DefaultDepth 16

to:

DefaultDepth 24

in /etc/X11/xorg.conf

jax7 · 06-21-2007, 04:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by quincy_the_penquin

Some video drivers, as it turns out, don't seem to work right with Beryl (at least on a few lucky computers). Try switching the video driver that your favourite media player uses over to "gl", or "gl2". Those drivers made the dots go away for me.

Thanx dude!! i was tryin to figure out a solution n luckily i found this post....thanx a lot!! i've changed it to X11/xshm and it works perfect