I have seen additional evidence for the error being KDE specific. After installing ubuntu-desktop and logging into gnome, videos played back without a problem. Upgrading to the recently released kde 4.2 has solved the problem for me. Before that, I believe I was using kde 4.1.2, since I believe that's the kubuntu 8.10 default. Not sure if upgrading to kde 4.1.4 would have solved the problem.
So, I suspect what solved the problem for Kosta after upgrading to Jaunty was the newer version of KDE, as opposed to anything regarding xorg. That's just my guess, though.
I think kde 4.2 will only be "official" for jaunty. To install 4.2 under 8.10, I added repository kubuntu-experimental
Hello again,
I have seen additional evidence for the error being KDE specific. After installing ubuntu-desktop and logging into gnome, videos played back without a problem. Upgrading to the recently released kde 4.2 has solved the problem for me. Before that, I believe I was using kde 4.1.2, since I believe that's the kubuntu 8.10 default. Not sure if upgrading to kde 4.1.4 would have solved the problem.
So, I suspect what solved the problem for Kosta after upgrading to Jaunty was the newer version of KDE, as opposed to anything regarding xorg. That's just my guess, though.
I think kde 4.2 will only be "official" for jaunty. To install 4.2 under 8.10, I added repository kubuntu- experimental
Problem solved for me,
Jaime