On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 08:07:44PM +0100, Oliver Seitz wrote: > Am 03.02.2010, 20:03 Uhr, schrieb Reimar D?ffinger > <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de>: > > >On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 04:51:28PM +0100, Oliver Seitz wrote: > >>And the transparent bars are due to the aspect of the video, which seems > >>to be scaled from 720x576 to 768x576. -vo x11 can't scale, but > >>the window > >>is drawn to acommodate the scaled video, which then does not fill the > >>window. > > > >x11 specifically draws black on those borders, and it works for me with > >Ubuntu 9.10, with visual effects disabled. > >No idea what is going wrong in your case, I know I have seen that problem > >myself on other machines, but I never figured out what causes it. > >Does moving or resizing the window change anything? > > Yes, after touching the window in any way the bars get black, only > when just popped up the bars are transparent. I've seen it today on > Xubuntu 8.04 (VIA CN700) and on Ubuntu 9.10 (Intel 945GSE) In that case it hopefully is fixed now (not sure though).