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I installed 18.04 on a Dell Latitude E6520. According to the specs (http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/latit/en/latitude-e6520-specsheet.pdf) this machine has 2 video cards, an Intel® HD Graphics 3000 and an NVIDIA® NVSTM 4200M Discrete Graphics. According to inxi -Fzx, these are correctly detected. (section follows here:) 

Graphics:  Card-1: Intel 2nd Generation Core Integrated Graphics Ctr
           bus-ID: 00:02.0
           Card-2: NVIDIA GF119M [NVS 4200M] bus-ID: 01:00.0
           Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.6 ) drivers: i915,nouveau
           Resolution: 1920x1080@60.01hz
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Sandybridge Mobile
           version: 3.3 Mesa 18.0.5 Direct Render: Yes

When I start a DVD with a menu-system in VLC, the selection areas where I float, are either speckled or greyed, but never invisible. Is this a problem with VLC or with the video driver of Ubuntu? (Sorry, I don't know how to post a screendump)

abu_bua
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VLC is often performing well, but here are a few things to try in order to improve the performance (to play video).

  • You can try with a proprietary nvidia driver for the nvidia card. See this link (and scroll down to 'The next step is to install an nvidia proprietary driver...')

  • You can install more (and maybe better) codecs and other restricted software to play multimedia with the command

    sudo apt install ubuntu-restricted-extras

    Then you can also try with the default video player, totem in standard Ubuntu.

  • The computer was powerful when new, but is getting old, so it might work better with an Ubuntu community flavour with a light desktop environment, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu MATE or Xubuntu. These flavours have light-weight video players too, lighter than that of standard Ubuntu. The lightest flavour, Lubuntu, comes with gnome-mpv in 18.04 LTS.

sudodus
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