Comments on: Fix for Video Playback Problem in Compiz-Fusion

By: yossef(a)

yossef(a) — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 13:50:45 +0000

thank you thank you thank you thank you!!! this saved me completely i love you!

By: jena

jena — Fri, 21 May 2010 02:15:18 +0000

After do this tutorial, the video playback work perfect in my archlinux…. Thanks a lot! =)

By: JuanPi

JuanPi — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:30:36 +0000

Thanks it work for me like a charm!!

By: Arnold

Arnold — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:46:49 +0000

Thanks a lot!
It works like a charm on both VLC and Totem.
I have an Nvidia 9500gs and I’m running Intrepid Ibex.

By: Pavel

Pavel — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:33:05 +0000

FINALLY!! thank you so much!

By: Paul Bradley

Paul Bradley — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:59:31 +0000

I believe that I read that the RadeonHD series does not have hardware 2D acceleration. What I used on mplayer was openGL acceleration.

By: Niranjan

Niranjan — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 09:34:53 +0000

Man you rock. i am a new convert from windows. have KUBUNTU installed on my laptop and was not able to get VLC or MPlayer to play flv video files. The files would begin and then the application would just crash. By changing the video output setting to X11 in VLC i was able to fix this problem.
Thanks again.

By: Keith

Keith — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 13:21:32 +0000

Thanks, worked a treat for both VLC and gstreamer.

By: icedfusion

icedfusion — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:41:28 +0000

Agreed that the X11 is a bad idea. I have the ATI chipset and did this, the quality of the output was as another user posted, quite pixelated. I have opted to switch off compiz so that I at least can use xv video and wait for ATI to issue a fix.
I have also looked at getting an nvidia graphics card for £50, then I wouldnt have to worry about all this.

By: Jordi

Jordi — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 04:56:07 +0000

THANKS!! that’s all that wass missing from my ibex … now it has graduated

By: Quoc Duy

Quoc Duy — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 05:23:45 +0000

Thanks! That’s great I’m fixed this problem

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 04:02:54 +0000

It may not be optimal, but it works. easier than switching to metacity every time I want to watch a video. I have plenty of CPU to handle video scaling. by the way, for those of us preferring the cli mplayer, it’s mplayer -vo x11 file.avi

Thanks!

By: Kristofer

Kristofer — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:31:10 +0000

I have to agree with the people saying these are bad suggestions.
For a high-end machine, these settings will be fine, but for slightly older specs these will just slow the system far too much down. And there are better solutions for it. Like the patched mplayer in example. (Google it)

By: Larios

Larios — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:20:58 +0000

Exelent information Thanks a lot

By: thesaint

thesaint — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 13:10:55 +0000

Thanks man, it works with me, also for RealPlayer i do the below
open realplayer -> tools -> Preferences -> Hardware (tab) -> Uncheck “Use XVideo”
this works also with me

By: Mada

Mada — Sun, 18 May 2008 09:42:35 +0000

Really thanks good information worked with me

By: Wong Bater

Wong Bater — Fri, 09 May 2008 07:38:50 +0000

you are my hero!

By: Dimass

Dimass — Thu, 08 May 2008 17:26:39 +0000

Thanks man!
I just start nix. Your article hallp me too much.

By: richard

richard — Thu, 08 May 2008 09:03:39 +0000

You could also use the compiz switch icon which gives you a quick right click menu to switch your windows manager. This is what I do when playing games that conflict with compiz.

By: Srikar

Srikar — Thu, 08 May 2008 06:12:55 +0000

Video quality is gettin pixelated with the settings u hav suggested.