Totem flickers

[ALBastrul]

Binary package hint: totem

When on full screen, the movie played by totem flickers! Also... the subtitle is desynchronized with the movie/sound, i.e. there is a delay between what was said in the movie and what line from subtitle is displayed.

Totem was always shitty! I was never able to play a single movie with a subtitle in Ubuntu's shitty totem! Why do I always have to search through a lot of forums to find a solution? Is Ubuntu some problems collection?

I always use in W*ndows mplayer and it's MPUI Gui and i never had a single problem! Why, on Earh, a Linux, open source app works so damn good in that shitty Wind*ws?

Is that hard to remove this horrible media player or just to make it just work???? Is that so hard to make that shitty subtitle load by default, without that user google-ing to find how on Earth could a subtitle be loaded????????

I can't offer you a screenshot or so!

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/totem-gstreamer
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: totem-gstreamer 2.24.2-0ubuntu4
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=ro_RO.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: totem
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic x86_64

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

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[uds (durban77)]

Dear Developers!

I googled for flickering gstreamer, and found this bug.
The simptoms are similar, 8.10, amd64, ati driver and gstreamer.
Other suggested that replacing the video output driver from default (xv->x11 or anything) should help.
They were right, all players (Árpi's mplayer, xine) with this setting altered could play the movie without flickering.

My question is: Where can I alter totem's options, or gstreamer's to do not use 'xv' ?

Thanks, UDS

[Trab (trab)]

easy fix:
>run gstreamer-properties
>click on video
>under plugin select X Window System (no Xv)

then restart totem.

[Kellobyte (kellobyte-gmail)]

WORKS LIKE A CHARM
just one thing though
* Run in terminal "gstreamer-properties"

[trevor t (launch-etjt)]

Thanks! That was an easy fix.

[Bruno Scheele (spacyricochet)]

I know that this isn't a bug discussion anymore, but I wanted to know, what actually caused the flickering? With me the flickering always came up, UNLESS I had fullscreen on without any of the controls.

The fix worked though, but I'm wondering what I actually fixed.