(gutsy) ATI driver shows movie outside window and overrides other videos

[Stephan7]

Binary package hint: linux-restricted-modules

When showing movies in vlc, gmplayer or totem, the video is played partly outside the window at the lower side (as can been seen in the attachment).

After experimentations with displayconfig-gtk (with title "Screen and Graphics") I noticed this difference is related to the ATI restricted driver and the effect varies upon changing display resolutions.

Using model: LCD Panel 1600x1200 (widescreen)
Resolution: 1280x1024 at 60Hz --> shows half of the move outside the window
Resolution: 1024x768 at 60Hz --> shows the complete movie outside the window

Using model: LCD Panel 1680x1050 (widescreen)
Resolution: 1680x1050 at 60Hz --> almost shows the movie inside the window

Noticed that it only seems to concern playing movies (and in a player).
The remaining desktop and even flash movies inside firefox are displayed without any problems.

Another problem shows when I open a second movie (using either vlc, gmplayer or totem without having to be of the same player as the first) then the first player also shows the last opened movie.. this first movie is replaced by it, however the audio of the first is still playing. Closing the last movie leaves the first player only showing a green area.

When I disable the ATI restricted driver and use the generic vesa driver, all three vlc, gmplayer and totem show the movie like they should:
- inside the window.
- and opening a second movie is displayed separately.

But the vesa driver can only handle 1280x1024, at 1680x1050 it won't display the entire screen properly.

Using model: Plug 'n' Play
Resolution: 1280x1024 at 61Hz

I experiences this on a Dell 6400 Inspiron 6400 laptop with:
- 1680x1050 WSXGA TFT screen
- videocard:256MB ATI Mobility Radeon X1400
- Ubuntu Gutsu 7.10 (updated upto 14 nov 2007)
  linux-restricted-modules-2.6.22-14-generic 2.6.22.4-14.10
  linux-restricted-modules-common 2.6.22.4-14.10

[Stephan7 (sshsteph007)]

Screenshot of video being played partly outside player window and overlapping its controls.

[Stephan7 (sshsteph007)]

Note that this issue looks similar to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/130972
however there the 'solution' was to use gstreamer-properties and select 'No Xv'.
Doing that and pressing button "Test" shows indeed a better result (of the test video)
in comparison with pressing "Test" for the default one, however it does not appear to affect
the gmplayer, totem or vlc.

In vlc itself there is also an option to pass the Video output to a non-default, choosing
"X11 video output" which indeed fixes it for vlc programs (even playing multiple movies).
However gmplayer and movieplayer will still have the same issue, but now gmplayer only conflicts
with another gmplayer and totem only conflicts with a totem player.
This means I can in fact play three different movies or more at once using one for totem,
one for gmplayer and the reaming for vlc. But I can not have two gmplayers or two totems running.

Anyway, it should work without these workarounds..

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

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This bug was reported against the linux-meta package when it likely should have been reported against the linux package instead. We are automatically transitioning this to the linux kernel package so that the appropriate teams are notified and made aware of this issue. Thanks.

[kernel-janitor (kernel-janitor)]

Hi sshsteph007,

Please be sure to confirm this issue exists with the latest development release of Ubuntu. ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/ . Please then run following command from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report.

apport-collect -p linux-image-`uname -r` 162745

Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your results.

Thanks in advance.

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[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

This bug report was marked as Incomplete and has not had any updated comments for quite some time. As a result this bug is being closed. Please reopen if this is still an issue in the current Ubuntu release http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download . Also, please be sure to provide any requested information that may have been missing. To reopen the bug, click on the current status under the Status column and change the status back to "New". Thanks.

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