All video players display black screen

I'm working in 10.04 Lucid. All my video players (Movie Player and VLC) and the preview windows in editors (OpenShot and Pitivi) will only display a black screen when playing a video. The sound is fine and the videos work fine on other computers.

I have tried multiple formats from varying sources .MOV taken from old ffmpeg projects, .AVI straight from a camera, .MP4 using h.264 from OpenShot on another system, .OGV from a gtk-recordmydesktop session on this very computer. I even get a pure black screen in the viewer when starting a remote session in VNC.

This box has a GeForce 8400 GS using the proprietary Nvidia drivers in case it may be a card problem or setting.

2 Answers

I'm at a loss. The best suggestions I have is try re-installing the drivers or trying the non-proprietary nv driver. If the problem is still there with the nv driver, then it is most likely not a driver issue.

Good Luck

I found this worked.

1. Open the Configuration Editor by running

   gconf-editor 

   in the terminal.

2. Navigate to system → gstreamer → 0.10 → default

3. Double-click on videosink and change the setting from autovideosink to ximagesink