With fractional scaling enabled and scaling set to 200%, when videos are viewed in fullscreen there is constant refreshing and resizing of the video
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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xorg-server (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
This is seen both in Youtube and also other web-based videos as well as when videos are viewed using the local video player application.
When a video is set to be viewed in fullscreen, the video flickers and continually resizes itself.
Hardware:
Two displays, with one set to scale at 200% (4k display resolution), the other set to 100% scale at 1080p.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: xorg 1:7.7+19ubuntu14
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-18-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu20
Architecture: amd64
BootLog: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/boot.log'
CompositorRunning: None
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Mar 17 11:53:46 2020
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: focal
DistroVariant: ubuntu
ExtraDebuggingI
GraphicsCard:
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/
Subsystem: Tul Corporation / PowerColor Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-03-16 (1 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Alpha amd64 (20200309)
MachineType: System manufacturer System Product Name
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 12/06/2019
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 2008
dmi.board.
dmi.board.name: PRIME B450-PLUS
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
dmi.board.version: Rev X.0x
dmi.chassis.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Default string
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmerican
dmi.product.family: To be filled by O.E.M.
dmi.product.name: System Product Name
dmi.product.sku: SKU
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: System manufacturer
version.compiz: compiz N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.100-4
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affects: | ubuntu → xorg (Ubuntu) |
The issues you describe are already covered by bug 1862081, bug 1846398 and bug 1754284. So please be careful to separate each concern and comment on those bugs appropriately.