is there a good alternative to totem?

[Michael R. Head]

On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 02:23 -0600, Kenneth P. Turvey wrote:
After
> tweaking the configuration for a while I can usually play what I want, but
> eventually my machine gets behind where it should be and the quality goes
> to hell.  

Make sure your player is using Xv (as opposed to bare X11) for display.
gstreamer-properties should configure this for totem, or
editing /etc/mplayer.conf and changing the "vo=x11" line to "vo=xv"

I play DVDs (and many divx-encoded videos) on my fiance's P3-900 laptop
without major issues using totem-xine.

> 
> If you come up with a good solution, please post information here. 
> 

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Michael R. Head <burner at suppressingfire.org>
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