totem -stuttering/bad performance with mp4 video

Bug #144110 reported by OCP_001
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Totem
Fix Released
Medium
gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: totem

I am experiencing bad video playback performance/stuttering when playing mp4/h264 video files.

It is not a performance problem of my system, because the cpu stays more or less idle during playback. No problem with xvid, avi or other codec types.

Running ubuntu 7.10 on a Core2Duo Mobile System with Intel 945GM.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Sep 22 19:46:48 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/totem
Package: totem-gstreamer 2.20.0-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: totem file:///home/peter/Desktop/%5BSHS-FoSu%5D_Kateikyoushi_Hitman_Reborn_-_41_%5B96FCF441%5D.mp4
ProcCwd: /home/peter
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: totem
Uname: Linux ubuntu 2.6.22-12-generic #1 SMP Thu Sep 20 18:51:18 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

Tags: apport-bug
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OCP_001 (ocp-001) wrote :
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug. What is the issue exactly? Does it do the same if you use "gst-launch-0.10 playbin uri=file:///path/to/video"? Could you attach an example to the bug or provide an url to download one?

Changed in totem:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Incomplete
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OCP_001 (ocp-001) wrote :

Yes, the problem is the same when launching manually.

A good example video can be downloaded (via bittorrent) from this url: http://www.anime-kraze.org/torrent/%5BA-Kraze%5D_Seirei_no_Moribito_-_23_%5B75667171%5D.mkv.torrent
Launch the mkv file and you should encounter stuttering playback/short drops in framerate after 10-15 seconds of playback. When watching carefully (and ignoring the silly soundtrack) you should also see greenish screen glitches to the left border of the playback window (ca. 1:17 playback).

This problem is not limited to this file, I encounter it when playing any file with mp4 codec.

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Npl (npl) wrote :

I can confirm this bug.

Im using Ubuntu 7.10 (AMD64) on a Athlon X2 4800+

same symptoms, if I open a video with a h264 Stream, it stutters badly (drops alot of frames) like its been played back at 4-5 FPS. Audio plays back smooth and CPU utilization never goes above 15%. "Older" Mpeg4-Streams (Xvid/h263) dont have this problem.
Disabling compiz has no effect on this, and neither disabling clockthrottling.

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Npl (npl) wrote :

the Gstreamer-FFmpeg Plugin v 0.10.3 seems to greatly improve it, must be related to this fix: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=342962.
.
But some movies still are jerky.

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Iulian Udrea (iulian) wrote :

Thank you for the information. Can someone else confirm if this bug is fixed?

Changed in totem:
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
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dano (danoex) wrote :

in hardy beta i have similar corruption
video file codec XVID MPEG-4
nvidia 8500gt

Jorge Castro (jorge)
Changed in totem:
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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Kimiko Koopman (kimiko) wrote :

This same thing happens with an avi file I have here. Nautilus and Totem say it is a "Microsoft Windows Media 9/MPEG-4 AAC audio" format. The audio is fine, but the video is very bad with green/purple blocky artifacts wherever there's movement on screen. It's the same when I use the gst-launch command you gave.

I've seen this kind of error before, but thought it was a mistake on the encoding end or something (you know, like too much compression in jpeg images). Turns out it is a totem bug after all then :/

totem 2.22.0-0ubuntu3
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad 0.10.6-5
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse 0.10.6-1
gstreamer0.10-plugins-base 0.10.18-3
gstreamer0.10-plugins-base-apps 0.10.18-3
gstreamer0.10-plugins-good 0.10.7-3
gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly 0.10.7-3
gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse 0.10.7-1
libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 0.10.18-3

Changed in totem:
status: Unknown → Fix Released
Changed in totem:
assignee: desktop-bugs → nobody
Changed in totem:
importance: Unknown → Medium
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madbiologist (me-again) wrote :

The fixed version of gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg has been in Ubuntu for some time.

Changed in gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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