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

[Michael R. Head]

On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 08:41 -0800, Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> On 2/5/07, Daniel Robitaille <robitaille at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > 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 :(

Yeah, that makes more sense. I wonder why totem changed from Xv to Xshm
from 2.16 to 2.17?

Also, on my nvidia-based desktop, compiz/beryl works great with Xv
displays -- very slick. I hope there's some way the opensource radeon
drivers can "catch up" so my Thinkpad T30 can be as slick.

Actually, now that I think about it, maybe the two are connected?
Indeed, beryl seems to actually work with totem's Xshm visual and does
not work (as well) with gxine's Xv visual.

> -- 
> Daniel Robitaille
> 
-- 
Michael R. Head <burner at suppressingfire.org>
suppressingfire.org
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