The way around the choppy video is to switch the video player to using X11 video instead of XVideo. Apparently this is only a problem when using compiz. X11 is somewhat lower quality in my experience, but it's a usable workaround for now.
The way around the choppy video is to switch the video player to using X11 video instead of XVideo. Apparently this is only a problem when using compiz. X11 is somewhat lower quality in my experience, but it's a usable workaround for now.