Yes, I've experience the same problem with VLC, Mplayer, and vmware server. Totem seems okay.
I'm suspecting its the intel driver for laptop graphics problem since it affects various applications. -- Starting up a virtual machine in a virtualbox changes the display brightness (again) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/241195 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