On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Joe Zeff <joe@zeff.us> wrote:
On 02/06/2013 04:26 AM, Andre Costa wrote:Have you tried running top in a terminal while this is going on? It can't hurt to know what process is using most of your CPU time when the videos slow down.
Quite the contrary: this is a 8-core i7 desktop with a GeForce GT9800.
It should handle any videos just fine ;-) (as it always has done until
F18). There's clearly something wrong, I just don't know exactly what it
is. CPU usage doesn't spike too much while watching videos
Thks Joe, I'll try that. But it doesn't look like it's a high CPU usage issue, it looks as if video decoding is buggy.I just tested getting rid of totem-mozplugin and installing gecko-mediaplayer (which uses MPlayer). Firefox is now able to play videos just fine, so it does seem to be some issue with Totem (or, more specifically, GStreamer?). However, gecko-mediaplayer doesn't get along well with Chrome, it simply can't load the plugin. So, either I switch back to Firefox or I use it only when I want to watch Quicktime movies.Damn :-/