No problem with the bug reporting; glad I can help in some small way. As far as logging into 3D, that's a no go. On this machine, Ubuntu defaults to 2D period (on 11.04 I had the "classic" interface — a classic interface that let me play videos, I may add ;) ). Anyway, joking aside, GNOME 3 also won't work/won't install. So what I've done on top of this set up is:
sudo apt-get install lubuntu-desktop And wouldn’t you know it, watching videos in Lubuntu just works, all video formats, all players. So then I logged back into Unity 2D. As far as the compositing_manager key, first I had to install gconf-editor from the repos. Then, in Unity 2D, compositing_manager key was set to “False.” I switched it to “true,” logged out, and logged back in again. Watching a video in VLC doesn’t go into “slow-motion” mode, but it drops frames like mad and the video is pretty much unwatchable. Banshee and Gnome Mplayer, however, are still in slow-motion — clear, no frames dropped, but playing at a fraction of the speed it should. So then I went and toggled the manager back to “false” and now the videos now play glitch free and without a problem in Unity 2D — in all the media players. I should also add that I didn’t log out and back in after toggling back to “false”; it was more of a what-the-heck try it and see moment. So what I'm doing right now is waiting for the updates to finish installing on a second test machine (same laptop, but with 512 megs of ram instead of a gig) and I will toggle compositing_manager key without installing another UI (Lubuntu) to see what happens. I will post the results when this is done. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/852554 Title: Unity 2D Video Lags Everywhere To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-2d/+bug/852554/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
