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totem package

Totem video playback flickers when moving between windows

Bug #535426 reported by Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 on 2010-03-10

This bug affects 8 people

	Status	Importance	Assigned to
Totem	Fix Released	Medium	gnome-bugs #614177
totem (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Low	Martin Pitt
Lucid	Fix Released	Low	Martin Pitt

Bug Description

Binary package hint: compiz

nvidia binary, dual screen, latest lucid. If I play a video in totem and move my mouse (I have my x set so it highlights the window I am over) the video flickers. It also does it when maximising or in any way playing around with pretty much any window operation of the totem one or any other window.. Screencasts to follow..

the flicker is more noticable than the screencast shows.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,ccp,move,resize,place,decoration,workarounds,gnomecompat,dbus,mousepoll,resizeinfo,text,session,neg,screenshot,svg,imgjpeg,vpswitch,png,regex,commands,animation,shift,wall,wobbly,snap,fade,expo,scale,scaleaddon,ezoom,switcher,staticswitcher]
Date: Wed Mar 10 00:14:38 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
MachineType: System manufacturer System Product Name
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: compiz 1:0.8.4-0ubuntu13
PackageArchitecture: all
PciDisplay: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation G71 [GeForce 7900 GT/GTO] [10de:0291] (rev a1)
ProcCmdLine: auto BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=/dev/md0
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_GB.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-15.22-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
xserver-xorg 1:7.5+1ubuntu12
libgl1-mesa-glx 7.7-4ubuntu1
libdrm2 2.4.18+git20100302.9a37455b+rebuilt1-0ubuntu0raof
xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.9.1-1ubuntu10
xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.99+git20100126.e5933fd7-0ubuntu2
SourcePackage: compiz
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-15-generic x86_64
dmi.bios.date: 04/24/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
dmi.bios.version: ASUS P5N32-E SLI ACPI BIOS Revision 1801
dmi.board.name: P5N32-E SLI
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
dmi.board.version: 1.XX
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: 123456789000
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacture
dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologies,LTD:bvrASUSP5N32-ESLIACPIBIOSRevision1801:bd04/24/2009:svnSystemmanufacturer:pnSystemProductName:pvrSystemVersion:rvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:rnP5N32-ESLI:rvr1.XX:cvnChassisManufacture:ct3:cvrChassisVersion:
dmi.product.name: System Product Name
dmi.product.version: System Version
dmi.sys.vendor: System manufacturer
glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
system: distro = Ubuntu, architecture = x86_64, kernel = 2.6.32-15-generic

Tags:

Related branches

lp:~ubuntu-desktop/totem/ubuntu

lp:ubuntu/lucid-proposed/totem

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) wrote on 2010-03-10:

totemflicker.ogv Edit (4.4 MiB, video/ogg)
BootDmesg.txt Edit (51.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CurrentDmesg.txt Edit (57.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (5.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GconfCompiz.txt Edit (33.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lspci.txt Edit (16.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lsusb.txt Edit (453 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfo.txt Edit (1.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcInterrupts.txt Edit (1.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcModules.txt Edit (3.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevDb.txt Edit (154.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevLog.txt Edit (302.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgConf.txt Edit (1.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLog.txt Edit (13.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLogOld.txt Edit (14.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Xrandr.txt Edit (768 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XsessionErrors.txt Edit (554.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
monitors.xml.txt Edit (1.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) wrote on 2010-03-10:

totemnoflicker.ogv Edit (5.6 MiB, video/ogg)

No flicker video taken with compiz off.

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Kai Jauch (kaijauch) wrote on 2010-03-13:

This doesn't appear to be a compiz problem, I'm getting the same flickering when totem gets or loses window focus with and without compiz running. I noticed that the flickering only occurs when the "video area" of the totem window is selected.

Flickering:
- start totem and let it play a video, click once on the video area
- focus another window -> flickering
- focus totem -> flickering

Not flickering:
- start totem and let it play a video, click anywhere in the playlist once (or highlight the youtube/properties/... dropdown menu)
- focus another window -> no flickering
- focus totem -> no flickering

This can also be reproduced by clicking once on the video area of totem, then the playlist, then the video part again etc.

Totem 2.29.91-0ubuntu2 on Intel graphics.

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) wrote on 2010-03-15:

Have re-assigned to totem after testing with compiz off and using nouveau video driver.

affects:

compiz (Ubuntu) → totem (Ubuntu)

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2010-03-15:

the issue is not likely a totem one, totem is just an user interface the video playing is done by gstreamer and the video driver stack

Changed in totem (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Low

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote on 2010-03-15:

do you get the same if playing the video with : gst-launch-0.10 playbin2 uri=file:///path/to/file and performing the same steps? As Sebastien said this is probably not a totem issue.

Changed in totem (Ubuntu):
assignee:	nobody → Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs)
status:	New → Incomplete

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Kai Jauch (kaijauch) wrote on 2010-03-15:

I repeated the same steps, it doesn't flicker with "gst-launch-0.10 playbin2".
It's probably connected to the "selected widget indication". If the drop down menu above the playlist is selected, it turns orange. If you focus another window, the orange highlight disappears. I suspect that the same thing is happening when the video area is selected. If the totem window loses focus, the (in this case not visible) "widget indication" goes away, which causes a short flicker.

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Jeroen T. Vermeulen (jtv) wrote on 2010-03-30:

FWIW I'm getting the same flicker as well, also with an nVidia card, on the Lucid beta; it does not happen in other movie players (VLC, MPlayer).

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2010-04-17

Changed in totem:
status:	Unknown → Confirmed

Sebastien Bacher (seb128) on 2010-04-19

Changed in totem (Ubuntu):
status:	Incomplete → Triaged

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2010-04-21

Changed in totem:
status:	Confirmed → Fix Released

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2010-04-21:

the bug has been fixed upstream now

Changed in totem (Ubuntu):
status:	Triaged → Fix Committed

Martin Pitt (pitti) on 2010-04-28

Changed in totem (Ubuntu):
assignee:	Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs) → Martin Pitt (pitti)

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2010-04-28:

#10

cleaned debdiff Edit (124.7 KiB, text/plain)

debdiff from lucid final (which had a git snapshot from April 13) to 2.30.1, with the autoconf noise and po changes stripped.

This is part of the "stable GNOME point releases for LTS" update.

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2010-05-05: Please test proposed package

#11

Accepted totem into lucid-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

tags:

added: verification-needed

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Daniel Gnoutcheff (gnoutchd) wrote on 2010-05-05:

#12

I just tested it, and it looks good. Flicker's gone. Thanks!

Martin Pitt (pitti) on 2010-05-06

tags:

added: verification-done
removed: verification-needed

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2010-05-09:

#13

This bug was fixed in the package totem - 2.30.1-0ubuntu1

---------------
totem (2.30.1-0ubuntu1) lucid-proposed; urgency=low

  [ Martin Pitt ]
  * New upstream bug fix release. Changes since our last git snapshot:
    - Fix crashes on exit.
    - Fix possible crasher when PyGTK isn't available. (LP: #367573)
    - Require gstreamer 0.10.28.1 for queue2 fixes.
    - Fix Youtube search lasting forever while playing Video. (LP: #559862)
    - Fix artifacts or black screen when paused. (LP: #535426)
    - Translation updates.
  * 90_autotools.patch: Refresh for new upstream version.
  * 90_autotools.patch: Revert upstream change of bumping gstreamer
    dependency to 0.10.28.1; set it back to 0.10.28. There are no queue2
    related changes in totem since our previous git snapshot, so this can't
    make a difference.

  [ Loïc Minier ]
  * totem.preinst: Actually remove alternatives by checking for action
    "upgrade" instead of "configure" which isn't used with preinsts; bump
    version to 2.30.0git20100413-0ubuntu2 for that to be effective.
-- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:58:47 +0200