totem player video does not move with window

[Sam Jordan]

Binary package hint: totem

when moving the window, the video stays in the same place, black edges stay around the video.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Jun 14 00:37:11 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04.1
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/totem-gstreamer
Package: totem-gstreamer 2.22.1-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: totem
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686

[Sam Jordan (verygoodyear)]

Ahh, the video doesn't show in the screenshot, but it's only in the bottom corner.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report, do you use the desktop effects option?

[Sam Jordan (verygoodyear)]

Yeah I use Compiz and have messed with the Video Playback feature, including the Yv12 colourspace. I don't know if this is just down to me messing with things. Is it worth me using metacity to see it still does it?

Cheers!

[Sam Jordan (verygoodyear)]

UPDATE: I have enabled metacity and the video works fine, thus suggesting a fault with Compiz? This was with NO desktop effects, when I re enabled desktop effect from the 'Appearance>Visual Effects>Extra effects, i get the same symptoms. Does this use Compiz as the engine???

 I'm no expert, that's what you genius' are for. Should I file a bug on compiz/metacity rather than Totem? Just to note this does not happen when playing flash in Firefox, so it's not every video source.

Thanks, hope this is helpful information.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

reassigning to compiz, that's a known issue there

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

not a totem bug as per Sebastien comment.

[Aanjhan Ranganathan (aanjhan)]

Confirming the bug. Sebastien has also confirmed it and I al able to reproduce completely too.

[Nelson Álvarez Sáez (alvareznelson)]

I think I can add to this bug instead of reporting a new one. I'm having Sam's problem and more:

Whenever a window or menu overlaps the window where a video is being displayed, I can see a blue halo around the window or dialog box instead of the shadow created by the window decorator, either Compiz or Metacity.

This happens with any video player. I have tried VLC, Totem and Realplayer. In Totem the halo is black, not blue.

When I capture the screen while a video is playing, I get no still image of the video in the screenshot, but a transparent area that turns blue when I move it outside the area of the video that's being played.

I switched to a KDE session (without Compiz installed) and had the same problem.

I remember having this problem in Dapper Drake, when I didn't even have Compiz installed, but I didn't have this problem in Gutsy.

I ran Gutsy from a Live CD, and everything worked well. No problem with screenshots there.

My PC is a Compaq Presario c701la, Intel Celeron processor,

I'm enclosing pictures in a zip file:
Pic 01: Blue halo around menu
Pic 02: Compiz fire particles turn into blue spots on the video area
Pic 03: Black halo around menus with Totem
Pic 04: Transparent square instead of video still in screenshot
Pic 05: Transparent square turns blue
Pic 06: No problem with screenshots in Gutsy

[jhfhlkjlj (fdsuufijjejejejej-deactivatedaccount)]

This is incredibly old and most likely a dupe of an ancient bug dealing with nvidia's proprietary drivers. The issue has since been fixed.

If a similar error is existant in newer iterations of Compiz, please file a new report.