Another update - more progress has been made: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODgwOQ
All your father has to do to watch movies of his holidays is select Preferences from Totem's Edit menu, then select the Display tab and then tick "Disable deinterlacing of interlaced videos". However I'm not sure if they will look good interlaced. Regarding the CPU requirements for deinterlacing being too high for small-old systems, this is a familiar story in computing. The computer which I owned previous to the computer previous to my current computer (does that make sense? - I mean two computers ago) would choke and become almost completely unresponsive to keyboard and mouse input whenever it was displaying a web page with a flash animation (such as many flash ads). I kept flash installed since I could (just) successfully playback flash movies, but I couldn't do anything else (not even scroll the page) at the same time. The same computer could also just manage smooth playback of a 320x240 MPEG-2 file from disk - CPU went to 100%. The computer was a Pentium MMX 166MHz, by the time I was having these experiences it was 6 years old, I ended up dismantling it and taking the parts to the recycling centre, then buying a new computer. Fortunately these days the use of lead (Pb) in computer parts is much less common. -- deinterlacing is default https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/667514 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to totem in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
