On Sun, 6 Nov 2016 12:22:49 -0700 stan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 6 Nov 2016 11:38:29 -0700 > stan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sun, 06 Nov 2016 06:55:27 +0000 > > Sérgio Basto <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > yeah, from Xorg.log: > > > X.Org X Server 1.18.99.902 (1.19.0 RC 2) > > > Release Date: 2016-10-28 > > > > > > that is why nvidia is broken . > > > > That new version of X also gives problems to the radeon driver. > > When I try to do anything that requires significant graphics > > processing (pygame, vlc, mplayer, ffplay), they run about 1/8 speed > > (ffplay doesn't but eventually hangs). It isn't noticeable in the > > GUI because I'm so slow, as a human (last time I checked). I still > > have X 1.19 in rawhide, and it is slow. When I downgraded X to 1.18 > > in F25, everything started working properly again. > > > > They must have turned off optimization, or hardware acceleration, in > > these test candidates, or something. So, as a workaround, find out > > which xorg-x11-server* packages you have installed, go to koji and > > get them for X 1.18 and do a local dnf -C downgrade of X. Then use > > -x xorg* on any future updates to stay at 1.18. > > Yet, when I tried playing youtube videos in firefox nightly, they > played as normal. I compile with cairo-gtk3 and with-X as options, so > maybe that has something to do with it. But it doesn't make sense > that local players should have problems with local videos if firefox > can play remote videos. For what it is worth, I also compile mplayer > locally, so it should be using the latest libraries too. > > Puzzling.
With this weeks updates to rawhide, mplayer plays local videos at normal speed, but like ffplay, they now hang near the end of the video. :-( I have to kill the process to recover. Web videos still play fine in firefox.
