Totem's Full-screen quality in Feisty; is it only me having problem?

[Daniel Robitaille]

On 2/5/07, Daniel Robitaille <robitaille at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On 2/5/07, Michael R. Head <burner at suppressingfire.org> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2007-02-03 at 00:20 -0800, Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> > > Before  I file a bug report, has anyone else noticed a decrease in
> > > image quality when running Totem in full screen mode in Feisty?
> > >
> > > The closest bug report I found was:
> > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/totem/+bug/82361
> >
> > This bug might be it:
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/totem/+bug/80820
> >
>
> Thanks Michael for that link.  I think the answer/problem is that one.
>  I had done more tests last night, and I had reached the conclusion
> that the problem is related to xv versus xshm.  By default totem uses
> xv, and the image quality is lower; and it doesn't matter if the
> gstreamer or xine backend is used.  By default gxine uses xshm, and it
> looks a lot better on my screen, no matter what is the screen size or
> if it'ss full screen.
>
> If you you in ~/.gxine/config, you can force gxine to use xv instead
> of xshm, then you get the similar bad video quality in both gxine and
> totem.
>
> I would have expected gstreamer-property to be able to allow me to
> force totem into using xshm, but it doesn't seem to work for me.

actually I got all this backward...by default totem uses xshm, and gxine xv....
I should never write emails too early in the morning :(




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Daniel Robitaille