screen flashes while playing .avi file
 

I am trying to play some .avi files and they open and run, but only the sound works properly. The video screen will flash about every 4-5 seconds.

I've tried Totem and Gnome MPlayer and both play these files the same.

Running Linux Mint Helena.

What about running mplayer directly from the CLI? What does that do? Any error messages?

[SOLVED] screen flashes while playing .avi file
 

I downloaded VLC and the files play perfectly!