While running Compiz-Fusion, You wouldn’t be able to see any video play while either moving the window, viewing desktops in expo, 3d cube, or any other cool effect for that matter; instead you would see a blue screen, including when viewing in full screen.

* GStreamer Users (The default video player in Ubuntu, totem-gstreamer, and any video player that is based on the gstreamer backend)

• Open a terminal and type “gstreamer-properties”. Press Enter.
• Click the Video tab.
• Under Default Video Plugin select “X Window System (No Xv)”.
• Click Test to verify that video playback is working (you should be able to see the standard TV testing colour stripes).
• Click Close

* VLC Users (VLC is not installed by default)