Poor / No video on Pi Model B

[NXSmiggy]

Hi guys, Linux Newbie here.

I got myself a Pi mainly to play around with and learn some coding / Linux environment experience and so far all is going good.

I'm running the Squeeze build on a 2gb SD card , with the Pi powered from a 3500mah battery pack and using a logitech k400 for input.

I could not get the video to work correctly though, when i try to play something in VLC from a USB pen the first frame will load, then stop but continue toplay the audio flawlessly.

At first I thought the file may be the wrong format so i tried an AVI instead of an MP4, same issue.

Next i updated with

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$ sudo apt-get update

Same issue

I then realised the config file was on the original Start.elf file, so i replaced it with the 128-arm-start.elf file to give the GPU a bit more clout. Same problem.

The only video I can successfully get it to play is a single video ripped from youtube, which is AVI in webcam quality, running but the colours are flawed. the video is a direct rip of this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1q_rRicAwI with the flames appearing Blue rather than yellow.

I'm running the videos out through HDMI, using VLC.

Have i done something wrong? the only major things (well major to me) i have change is the Auto Login script, the Auto Startx script and I also added the

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sudo modprobe snd_bcm2835

to save me doing it every time I boot.

The Pi now seems to also run choppy since I've changed the video memory settings.

Do any of you nice people have some advice for a Newbie like me

[jamesh]

The player you are using does not sue the HW acceleration, so you are decoding just using the Arm chip. I think the app you need to use is omxplayer. Search the forums for that word and you should find out some more stuff (which I cannot remember off hand!)

[NXSmiggy]

I have seen this player mentioned around, ill give it a try tonight and see how it runs.

Told you I'm a Linux newbie lol, thanks jamie