flicker

[Tom]

Binary package hint: totem

I tried reporting a bug but my report vanished so i'm trying again

Movie player screen filckers. It seems to be cycling through all the open windows on my desktop. Also when i try opening a file browser (or any other window) the player wont let it stay on top.

My work-around, of putting the player window onto the empty desktop 2, showed me another problem. The movie keeps filckering anyway.

I'm using Ubuntu 8.10 with Totem 2.24.3 with default settings. I tried xine player but with the same result and the problem seems to happen where-ever the movie file is stored (locally or over the network or even on Cd drive) and i've tried mkv aswell as avi formats but always gettting this curious flickering.

When i switched off my ati drivers i couldn't open totem at all. It just crashed out and vanished.

Sorry if this just repeats my previous report.

Totem and Linux are excellent. Ubuntu is my favourite flavour and i'm lucky enough to never seem to have any problems usually, certainly not as many as with Microsoft and always easier to find answers for.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/totem-gstreamer
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: totem-gstreamer 2.24.3-0ubuntu1
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 2.6.27-7-generic i686

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

you already reported this as bug 298018, marking this as duplicate, thanks.

[Tom (tom6)]

yup, im trying to delete it. Thanks for swift response. As you've guessed i'm a total nooobie but enjoying it. Thanks all :)

[Tom (tom6)]

Also i have at last found an easy answer even though i still cant find my original post

 Trab wrote on 2008-11-09: (permalink)

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

then restart totem.

the options were slightly different but similar enough. Thanks again :)

[Tom (tom6)]

Ok, found original post now, thanks to your link. All sorted :)