Animesh Kumar {itsAnimesh}
I'm an IT professional/FOSS Geek living and working in New Delhi, India. Currently for the most part I work as a Technical Consultant developing Open Source ICT solutions for social and societal inclusion. I am a a FOSS enthusiast, I want to create an awareness about FOSS through the work I do. Below are the latest updates from a some social networks I subscribe to.
Green Verticale Line’s while playing movies in VLC!!!
Sometimes while playing movies or videos in VLC you may have noticed that green vertical bar comes up on the video and the color of the video gets distorted. I didn’t know at first what causes it but after playing around with it a little i found out that Xgl causes these line to come up above the video. When i had xgl uninstalled, the green thick line at the top of some videos played in VLC was gone. But after reinstalled xgl, the green line was back. I played the video’s using the (non-GUI, terminal command) mplayer command, lines were not visible in this. But the lines were visible in the GUI version of mplayer. The basic problem is that default output module used by VLC is XVideo.The simple solution is to change the output module to whatever works best for you.
Now coming to the point on how to change the module :
VLC > Tools > Preferences > Video > Output > change the default to what you want by the drop down box.
If you face problems please leave comments. 
Hey, do you use Conky as your system monitor (in the right hand side of your desktop as an overlay panel)? If yes, please send me your .conkyrc file or the configuration file. If no, tell me what is it that you use???
Cheers, its not everyday that I see a WordPress blog that looks so much like a default Drupal template blog.
Thanxs…
Yaa Prashant i do use conky… im planing to write a post on it sometime in the near future… 
the Conky script that i use is at
http://www.quicktweaks.com/2008/09/27/gmail-weather-beauty-right-on-your-ubuntu-desktop/
Haven’t got time currently to work on it but sometime in a week or so I’ll write a personal script..
Thank you very much for your information.I was glad i found a description/method on solving the problem after hours of searching.It works now!No green,blue or vibrating vertical lines on the screen.
Best wishes and regards!
G.
The movies or videos i play with vlc are having a greenish hue throughout with no other colors. it happened after i changed the output module. i tried changing it back to the default setting but in vain.what shd i do now?
Thanks, changing the video output from “Default” to something else removed my green vertical lines.
Thanks a lot! It has worked for me… Best Regards…
It gets rid of the green lines but now the video is really choppy. I’ve tried every output setting. Any ideas?