video playback spotty with xv output

[Randall Smith]

Binary package hint: xorg

In Lucid, with visual effects set to normal, video playback using xv blacks out sometimes. The following video is a demonstration.

http://ironhacker.s3.amazonaws.com/20100513_001.mp4

Changing to x11 (no xv) video output "fixes" the problem, but uses much more CPU.

This has been true in previous versions of Ubuntu since 8.04 on this hardware. I'm just now reporting it.

~$ lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)

~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Release: 10.04

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: xorg 1:7.5+5ubuntu1
Uname: Linux 2.6.33-02063303-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu May 13 00:57:54 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xorg
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 codename: lucid
 architecture: i686
 kernel: 2.6.33-02063303-generic

[Stenten (stenten)]

Please try the test kernel in Bug 541511.

[Randall Smith (randall-tnr)]

After applying the update from the brian-rogers ppa, https://launchpad.net/~brian-rogers/+archive/graphics-fixes I haven't experienced this issue or a GPU freeze, which I experienced with other configurations.

[Stenten (stenten)]

I'm going to go ahead and mark this as a duplicate of Bug 541511. You should subscribe to it and follow the development of the bug there.