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Totem playback is too slow on Hardy

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Totem plays movies too slow (1 frame per 1 second) after updating from Gutsy to Hardy. Is it a bug or I should configure Totem?..

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Álvaro del Olmo Alonso (dllum) said : 		#1

I have just moved to 8.04 and I cannot reproduce the problem. There is nothing to configure related to that.
Try reinstalling totem.

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Ayzen (ayzen-quwe) said : 		#2

I reinstalled Totem. Now it is much faster, but still slow in fullscreen mode. I suppose this is problem of ATI video drivers.

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Ayzen (ayzen-quwe) said : 		#3

I removed xserver-xgl and now Totem works fine :)

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Theodore G. Goutas (goutas) said : 		#4

I removed xserver-xgl and then Totem worked fine. Thanks.

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PhilL (wireless-phil) said : 		#5

I checked my 8.04 package and xserver-xgl is not installed, so this did not cure the slow video (frame by frame).

Any other ideas?

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Jacob Emcken (jacob-emcken) said : 		#6

I had something like this as well and found that it was Pulseaudio.
I ran gnome-sound-properties and change it to use ALSA and then I could playback movies again in Totem.

I think this happen after a resume from suspend-to-ram.

I found the solution on this guys blog:
http://www.nnbfn.net/2008/08/10/ubuntu-804-slow-movie-playback-and-no-audio/

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PhilL (wireless-phil) said : 		#7

Hi Jacob,

I think I fixed it a few days ago by re-installing Totem.

However since I don't play that many videos, I'll files this in my Ubuntu
folder just in case it happens again.

Thanks,

Phil

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 8:58 AM, Jacob Emcken <
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> Question #31163 on totem in ubuntu changed:
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> Jacob Emcken posted a new comment:
> I had something like this as well and found that it was Pulseaudio.
> I ran gnome-sound-properties and change it to use ALSA and then I could
> playback movies again in Totem.
>
> I think this happen after a resume from suspend-to-ram.
>
> I found the solution on this guys blog:
>
> http://www.nnbfn.net/2008/08/10/ubuntu-804-slow-movie-playback-and-no-audio/
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Robert Chambers (chambersr) said : 		#8

Hello: I have searched for the xserver-xgl file and it's not installed on my computer. When I switch back and forth between embedded video such as YouTube and a full screen file even music it will run at very very slow speed. I'm able to reboot the system and it will cure it, but this is getting tedious.

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khurtsiya (khurtsiya) said : 		#9

I have the same problem.

Reboot helps but this is not fun...

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MrPete (plibke) said : 		#10

I'm with Jacob:

>> I ran gnome-sound-properties and change it to use ALSA and then I could playback movies again in Totem.