Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: totem
Seems there are 2 separate problems that werent in Ubuntu 8.04
1. Movie players cycle through all the windows open on desktop. They cant stay
on top nor allow other windows (such as the file-browser) to stay on top.
2. Movie screen flickers all the time.
As a workaround to the first problem i play movies in an empty desktop
(usually the 2nd desktop) but its inelegant when i want to play the next
episode or a new movie. Due to the workaround i found that the second
problem might well be an independent issue.
When i watch a movie i expect it to play smoothly without flickering and
then i expect to be able to pull up a file browser window on top of the
player to search out the next movie and also to be able to use the menu
options within the movie player without having to pause the movie first.
It'd be great to be able to use my mouse-wheel to turn the volume up and
down but that's another story.
I have tried out
Totem 2.24.3 & xine
HD and normal
mkv and avi formats
old files and new ones
Files on Cds or over network aswell as local files.
So its not been an exhaustive trial but enough to convince me that its new to
my install of Ubuntu 8.10 as 8.04 was fine. Also new to 8.10 was the ease of
installing ATI proprietary driver without even having to go to the ATI or AMD
websites.
I'm in Linux almost all the time these days and with a fairly standard
setup i have few if any problems, certainly less than i had with
Microsoft and usually fairly easy to fix or work-around myself or
through the forums. I only use my machine for office apps, linux games
(currently loving Wesnoth, reminds me of World of Warcraft but better
story lines) movies and web-browsing. Linux is great. Ubuntu seems the
best flavour for me.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/totem-gstreamer
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: totem-gstreamer 2.24.3-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: totem
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686
** Affects: totem (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug
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Movie players flicker.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/298018
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