Jerky DVD playback with desktop effects enabled in Jaunty using fglrx

[notoriousdbp]

I've updated Jaunty today and thought I'd try playing a DVD. My laptop uses an ATI Radeon HD3200 chipset and the video playback is choppy and uses high CPU. Also, maximising the window or switching to full screen in Totem causes X to crash.

If I disable Desktop effects, the playback quality is acceptable. I've attached the output of lspci -vvnn which I hope helps to get this resolved.

[lspci]
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 Host Bridge [1022:9600]
     Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:0177]
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc RS780M/RS780MN [Radeon HD 3200 Graphics] [1002:9612]
     Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:0177]

[notoriousdbp (david-baird-parker)]

Updated system today and can report that:

In totem-gstreamer:
Windowed DVD playback is jerky
Attempting to switch to full screen crashes X

In totem-xine:
Windowed DVD playback is jerky
Fullscreen is fine

In VLC
Windowed DVD playback is jerky
Fullscreen is fine

As totem-gstreamer is the default app then the fact that moving to fullscreen crashes X makes this a critical fault

[notoriousdbp (david-baird-parker)]

Updated today - still an issue. I wonder if Totem has been set up to run in X11 output by default. This is because if, in VLC, I switch to OpenGL output, the flickering video problem still exists. X11 is a lot less efficient with resources for video output.

I would love it if someone other than me posted on this bug too

[notoriousdbp (david-baird-parker)]

Updated again today and it's still broken. 10 days until release please look at this someone.

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

Thanks for your bug report. The symptoms provided indicate this is a problem with your video drivers and is being reassigned to the xorg package. For more information on problems with visual effects and video drivers see http://wiki.ubuntu.com/VisualEffects.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

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Hi notoriousdbp,

This bug was reported against an earlier version of Ubuntu, can you
test if it still occurs on Lucid?

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[notoriousdbp (david-baird-parker)]

All fine now. Was fine in Karmic with the fglrx version that is supported in that