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I am using Mageia 5. The same is being dual-booted with windows 10. The following are my Hardware Specs

i5 5th Gen
4gb RAM
1TB hard drive
Switchable Graphics i.e. Intel Broadwell Graphiccs HD5500+AMD R5 m330
Laptop Model: HP083TX purchased Feb 2016

While web videos(youtube) play well, any Downloaded Videos by torrents et al are showing Green Dots and Stretch Lines. The same when played in Windows 10 play perfectly Fine. Any ideas

What video player do you use? And please show the output of

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urpmq --list-media active --list-url

I have used VLC, Xine and Dragon Player

The output you asked for:

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Core Release (distrib1) http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/distrib/5/x86_64/media/core/release
Core Updates (distrib3) http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/distrib/5/x86_64/media/core/updates
Nonfree Release (distrib11) http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/distrib/5/x86_64/media/nonfree/release
Nonfree Updates (distrib13) http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/distrib/5/x86_64/media/nonfree/updates
Nonfree Backports (distrib17) http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/distrib/5/x86_64/media/nonfree/backports
Tainted Release (distrib21) http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/distrib/5/x86_64/media/tainted/release
Tainted Updates (distrib23) http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/distrib/5/x86_64/media/tainted/updates
Tainted Backports (distrib27) http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/distrib/5/x86_64/media/tainted/backports

Please disable the backports repositories, and please show the output of

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rpm -qa|sort|grep -iE "vlc|xine|dragon"

I have disabled backport via Mageia Control Center.
The output you asked for

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rpm -qa|sort|grep -iE "vlc|xine|dragon"

dragon-4.14.3-1.mga5
dragon-handbook-4.14.3-1.mga5
lib64vlc5-2.2.2-1.mga5.tainted
lib64vlccore8-2.2.2-1.mga5.tainted
lib64xine2-1.2.6-5.mga5.tainted
lib64xinerama1-1.1.3-5.mga5
npapi-vlc-2.0.6-7.mga5
phonon-vlc-0.8.2-2.mga5
vlc-2.2.2-1.mga5.tainted
vlc-plugin-common-2.2.2-1.mga5.tainted
vlc-plugin-flac-2.2.2-1.mga5.tainted
vlc-plugin-pulse-2.2.2-1.mga5.tainted
vlc-plugin-speex-2.2.2-1.mga5.tainted
vlc-plugin-theora-2.2.2-1.mga5.tainted
xine1.2-common-1.2.6-5.mga5.tainted
xine-ui-0.99.9-2.mga5

The videos that show Green Dots and Stretch Lines, what video format are those?
and what graphics card and driver do you use, please show the output of

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grep -i driver /var/log/Xorg.0.log
lspcidrake -v | grep VGA

The videos in question are mostly mp4 or HEVCx265 codecs. In addition, yesterday night while trying to play an online video I was asked to activate the VLC web plugin. When I did the same and the video played, the same green dots made an appearance again.

Meanwhile your output

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[chirag@localhost ~]$ grep -i driver /var/log/Xorg.0.log
[    24.419]    X.Org Video Driver: 18.0
[    24.419]    X.Org XInput driver : 21.0
[    25.022] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/v4l_drv.so
[    25.034]    ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 18.0
[    25.153] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/intel-common/intel_drv.so
[    25.241]    Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[    25.241]    ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 18.0
[    25.241] (II) v4l driver for Video4Linux
[    25.241] (II) intel: Driver for Intel(R) Integrated Graphics Chipsets:
[    25.241] (II) intel: Driver for Intel(R) HD Graphics: 2000-6000
[    25.241] (II) intel: Driver for Intel(R) Iris(TM) Graphics: 5100, 6100
[    25.241] (II) intel: Driver for Intel(R) Iris(TM) Pro Graphics: 5200, 6200, P6300
[    25.242] (II) intel(0): Using Kernel Mode Setting driver: i915, version 1.6.0 20150327
[    25.371] (II) intel(0): [DRI2]   DRI driver: i965
[    25.371] (II) intel(0): [DRI2]   VDPAU driver: va_gl
[    26.519]    Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
[    26.519]    ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 21.0
[    26.519] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'Power Button'
[    26.538] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'Video Bus'
[    26.538] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[    26.539] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'Power Button'
[    26.539] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[    26.539] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[    26.539] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[    26.540] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'HP Truevision HD'
[    26.540] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[    26.540] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[    26.540] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[    26.541] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'AT Translated Set 2 keyboard'
[    26.556]    Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
[    26.556]    ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 21.0
[    26.557] (II) Using input driver 'synaptics' for 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad'
[    26.599] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[    26.599] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'HP WMI hotkeys'
[    26.600] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'HP Wireless hotkeys'


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[chirag@localhost ~]$ lspcidrake -v | grep VGA
Card:Intel 810 and later: Intel Corporation|Broadwell-U Integrated Graphics [DISPLAY_VGA] (vendor:8086 device:1616 subv:103c subd:80c2) (rev: 09)


Can you have a look in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf what you have there for the AccelMethod option set? You may need to change that, see e.g. viewtopic.php?p=27376#p27376

The issue was partly resolved by changing the Overlay Method in VLC to X11 from automatic. However the problem continues for Xine and Dragon Player. Should I consider myself lucky and get on with it or still go ahead changing the Xorg files as suggested by you in the above thread.

Well, if you don't change anything the issues with xine and dragon player will probably persist until they may fix themselves one day (or not).