Comment 137 for bug 1061073

(In reply to comment #38)
> (In reply to comment #37)
>
> > I also noticed that low resolution videos (480p) play smoothly, as well as
> > the HD videos but only when not viewed fullscreen.
>
> "kcmshell4 kwincompositing", last tab. is "suspend compositing for
> fullscreen windows" checked? Do they play faster if you suspend compositing
> altogether?

It is not checked, with KDE 4.9.2 + Mesa 8.0.4 it worked fine unchecked.

Checking it and/or disabling effects altogether caused VLC to play smoothly fullscreen.

Flash remained unaffected either way (it doesn't simply slow down, it fails to expand the video fullscreen and freezes the video).