Ubuntu:
About a week ago, all my .wmv’s, .avi’s, and .mpg’s starting playing only in black and white. I had been messing around with dvd encryption libraries just prior, and thought it might be related but in the end it turned out to be a totem player configuration. The solution is to remove totem’s config folder and let it rebuild as found here.
Step 1. terminal:
$ rm -r ~/.gconf/apps/totem
Step 2. log out and back in again.
And props to ubuntuforums.org once again for sending me in the right direction. Hope this helps someone else.
