Ok so I stumbled onto a workaround while jamming out to some music with the Rhythmbox 0.12.0 music player.
What I found is that if I bring up the Rhythmbox and play some music, then open the video in Movie player (or gxine or VLC), the video then works! So then to play a movie, open Rhythmbox 0.12.0 and play some music, launch the video - it will start playing, stop the video, stop the music so you can hear the video, then play the video and it works! Bizarre? - Yes! But.. Let's me watch the funny videos my good buddy sends me in email? - Yes! Regards, Shannon V. -- Can't play multimedia video (i.e., *.ogg, *.flv, *.wmv) when external monitor is connected https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/393623 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-intel in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
