Comment 14 for bug 1698270

Now looking into issue 3 from comment #11 again.

Every time the big stutter occurs it coincides with my PC's harddisk LED. Also, the same place in the video seems to be the first time the stream bitrate peaks over 10Mbps. So there seems to be some kind of cause and effect at this particularly detailed part of the video.

The stutter only occurs in totem though. No other gstreamer tool seems to exhibit the problem when playing the same video. Even using "gst-launch-1.0 playbin uri=file:///...." seems to not have the problem. So all evidence at the moment is suggesting the biggest stutter is somehow specific to the totem binary, and not gstreamer in general.

I've also just noticed a 5th source of stuttering; that is using clutterautovideosink in an X11 session. Will ignore that problem for now...