Ahah, blimey. Thanks Pedro for another swift response. As a total noobie at forum posting i couldn't find this but your link brought me right back here. Thanks again.
I found an easy answer somewhere Trab wrote on 2008-11-09: (permalink) easy fix: >run gstreamer-properties >click on video >under plugin select X Window System (no Xv) then restart totem. The options were slightly different but similar enough. Thanks to all volunteers for being really helpful and on-the-case :) Happily watching Heroes as i type now :) -- Movie players flicker. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/298018 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs