I can duplicate the behavior on two separate Mac's and it appears on both Centos 6.4 (x64) and Scientific Linux 6.4 (x64) based VM's. I am using Fusion 6.0.2 on a Mavericks based Mac and latest VMWare tools are installed.
I am trying to display a mp4 video (H.264 / AVC, Mpeg-4 AAC audio). When I try to display/view the video the audio works, but the video is black. I can forward and rewind, but nothing displays. I do not believe this is due to a missing codec since I do not get an error message about a missing codec. Also the behavior using the Linux "totem" video player and "vlc" are the same --- audio present, video is a black screen. If I take a snapshot of the "black" video screen (from within vlc), the snapshot image displays proper video content. So the decoding of the video stream appears to be happening, the video itself is just not displayed by the video player running inside the VM.
Is this a known problem? Any ideas what I need to do to fix this video display issue?
Thanks,
- Henrik