Horizontal lines while playing video

[liberty86]

Hi All,

I'm new to this forumn and to fedora linux.

Recently, i have done a fresh fedora 17 64 bit installation on my desktop.

I have installed all the required plugins for movie player software and played a mp4 file.

And i see few horizontal lines here and there in the video which is so annoying me.

Someone help me in troubleshooting the problem.

Below are my Hardware details.

[root@liberty liberty]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family DRAM Controller (rev 09)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200/2nd Generation Core Processor Family PCI Express Root Port (rev 09)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82579V Gigabit Network Connection (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev b4)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev b4)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation H67 Express Chipset Family LPC Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family 6 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller (rev 04)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT218 [GeForce 8400 GS] (rev a2)
01:00.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)
02:00.0 PCI bridge: Integrated Technology Express, Inc. Device 8892 (rev 10)
04:00.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation uPD720200 USB 3.0 Host Controller (rev 03)

[george_toolan]

You don't have an old sony trinitron crt, do you? Try

mplayer -vo gl filename.mp4

mplayer -vo gl2 filename.mp4

Better now?

[liberty86]

Hi , Thanks for your input.

Yeah, it's certainly better with the mplayer. I'll also tried playing video in SMPLAYER which i believe it's a GUI for mplayer and i got a decent output.

But in VLC player i still seeing the flickering issue.

Thanks for your help as i tried playing video in SMPLAYER only after tring via mplayer as per your post.

Can you let me know if flickering issue is specific to media players ?

btw i'm using DELL 24inch LED monitor.

[DBelton]

I seem to recall some issues with the Geforce 8 series cards, but can't recall right off if that was one of the issues.

[liberty86]

Unfortunately,i'm using nVidia [GeForce 8400 GS] graphicd card