unknown video plays in slow motion in full screen

[Izik]

I tried playing a movie and it went into slow motion when I turn it to full screen
Ubuntu 8.04

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Apr 24 20:55:55 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/totem-gstreamer
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: totem-gstreamer 2.22.1-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: totem
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic i686

[Václav Šmilauer (eudoxos)]

Can you test with some movie available from the web so that other people can confirm? Totem works for me fine in fullscreen, with or without compiz. It can be video driver issue as well, which one do you use?

[Caroline Ford (secretlondon)]

Allocating to totem, but may be graphics driver related.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

We are closing this bug report as it lacks the information, described in the previous comments, we need to investigate the problem further. However, please reopen it if you can give us the missing information and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future.

[Dave Fine (finerrecliner)]

i have this problem as well.

Linux laptop 2.6.24-17-generic #1 SMP Thu May 1 14:31:33 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
fglrx driver.
Totem Movie Player 2.22.1 (gstreamer)
ubuntu 8.04

this problem did not occur when i was using gutsy.

example video file:
http://www.bigbuckbunny.org/index.php/download/
854x480 ogg format

the playback is choppy. audio is fine. problem only occurs in fullscreen mode. this problem occurs with
 other files as well (avi is the only other format i've tried)

[Dave Fine (finerrecliner)]

i forgot to add, that the same video(s) that have a problem in totem, play just fine using VLC

[mikeblaa (mikeblaa)]

I was experiencing a similar issue but was able to resolve using the "Sound Preferences" accessed via System -> Preferences -> Sounds.

All options were originally set to Autodetect. After changing all to ALSA, I was able to play videos that previously had been extremely slow.

[userdce (userdce)]

changing to ALSA helped me too.

[Bas Kok (bakotaco)]

and changing to ALSA helped me as well.

[tamman2000 (john-w-dailey)]

Switching to ALSA fixed it for me too, but I had been using pulse audio instead of autodetect...

[Oskar Grindemyr (oskar-grindemyr)]

Just installed Ubuntu 8.04.1 and had this problem in the default installation with several video formats, changing to ALSA solved it.

[F4d3t0bL4ck (fadetoblack2004)]

change to aLSA fixed it for me too...
thnx.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the issue seems to be an another pulseaudio one

[Jorge Tomé (jorgetome)]

I can also confirm the same problem.

After updating to hardy Totem player started to reproduce the movies in slow motion (more or les 2 frames/sec). In Gutsy it always worked without problems.

I had the Sound preferences for movies set to "Autodetect", after change the preferences of Sound for movies to "ALSA" Totem starts to reproduce the movies Ok again.

[Kip Ingram (kip-ingram)]

Yup. I've had this problem ever since upgrading to 8.04 on my main desktop. I recently bought an Asus Eee PC 1000 and discarded the stock Xandros OS in favor of Ubuntu (8.04.1). Same problem: agonizingly slow video. Based on feedback here I switched all of the sound preferences from Autodetect to ALSA, and the problem just disappeared.

I just found out about this fix and have only tried it on the Eee PC, but I expect it will solve the problem on the desktop as well.

[bobofett (bobofett)]

Like to jump on the bandwagon here and say I've seen the problem on two separate machines now.

It actually happens somewhat randomly. Seems, that at least in one case. Everything was working swimmingly and then watched some vids on YouTube...and then every media file (.avi, .mpg, .mp3, .wav etc...) was in super slow motion.

Any audio file looks as if it's trying to work, but never does anything, and as others have said any video of any kind plays in very slow motion.

Just changed to ALSA and applied and all was well.

I remember this was something I had to do on my kubuntu box as well, about a year ago or so.

I really feel like this is something that must be addressed pretty quickly.

The other place I saw it was a with a friend that has never used Linux before, and it constantly curising it right now because of this very problem....not a very good sign for Ubuntu or Linux in general. We really need to focus on thinking about the user experience from the stand point of those that just don't know that much about computers. What are they to expect with little problems like this...which really shouldn't be a problem.

Oh well as is life I suspect. But this on top of the fact that the past few times I've done version upgrades on my kubuntu box I've had to go back and manually do stuff to get some aspect of the system back up and running again. Hell this last time I lost the ability to boot after an upgrade because of how they handle the upgrades of the headers and nvidia drivers.

Really getting sick of having to search the Net trying to figure out how to fix my Ubuntu or Kubuntu boxes because some normal automatic update screwed up my system.

[Sven Arvidsson (sa)]

I just filed a bug report about a very similar problem, but for me it isn't limited to full screen.

See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=561876

[cbrmichi (cbrmichi)]

same problem here with 2 computers using 8.10 (intrepid).
changing to also didn't help.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

fixed in jaunty's ubuntu11

[gary_inNYC (wat-gary)]

Interesting... the problem persisted on Lucid Lynx on my Thinkpad T40 with a fresh install. Totem played fine when not fullscreen, but really choppy when full. Running gstreamer-properties & switching to all ALSA indeed fixed the problem for me.

The issue is real, at least for me. Glad I came here for the fix :)

[gary_inNYC (wat-gary)]

sry for double posting, but i neglected to mention that I also changed video default output to X Window System (X11/XShm/Xv) from gstreamer-properties as well. Think that did it more for me than switching audio to ALSA. Nonetheless it's working well now.