Okay, a friend of mine has this problem on a Dell Inspiron laptop running Dapper, with totem-xine. If I remember rightly, the same problem was appearing with MPlayer as well. We didn't try xine-ui. She did not have the problem on the same laptop with Breezy, when she was using xine-ui.
Turning down the brightness and contrast in Totem can alleviate the problem somewhat, but can't seem to get it quite right. It feels as if there is an extra setting, maybe gamma or something, that is mis-set, and Totem doesn't provide access to it. The problem she has looks very similar to the one in the screenshot on the following bug report: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bug/47566 the author of which believes it to be a duplicate of this bug. I don't have access to this Dell laptop right now, but can get to it on Sunday or Monday. I'll add the backports and updates repositories and download all the latest updates and see if the problem still occurs. If it does, I'll post lshw and xorg.conf for the laptop here. I would like to know what else I can post that will be most useful for getting this bug fixed. If you can ask me for something before Sunday then I'll post it, but I'm only going to have a short window of access to the laptop. My friend would really like to have this fixed, as she basically uses her laptop to watch movies. -- Xv movies on 810/i945 gives horrible color, Gamma https://launchpad.net/bugs/32963 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
