Gordaen’s Blog

My desktop never had any problems with video playback in Ubuntu, but my laptop has. I was too lazy to really look into it, but basically several types of videos would be a weird blue hue. Adjusting the hue by 50% made the colors close to normal, but reds generally appeared too green so that wasn't a permanent answer. I believe the issue may be due to the FGLRX drivers needed for the laptop's ATI Radeon Mobility X1300, because that was the only obvious difference between my desktop and laptop. Fortunately, I happened to stumble across a page with the fix before doing too much looking around, so I can't say for sure what the issue was exactly. Here is the command to run if you're having the same issue:

Every so often, one quickly finds the one-line Linux answer after just a few minutes of searching!