Comments on: Video playback problems (black) after installing Beryl (or Compiz)

By: FeradZ Blog » Is Linux Easy to Use?

FeradZ Blog » Is Linux Easy to Use? — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:48:59 +0000

[...] files – a problem caused due to a bug in the XVideo and beryl/compiz better described at "Video playback problems (black) after installing Beryl (or Compiz)" (ok this is not much relevant with broken [...]

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By: Zak

Zak — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:48:32 +0000

Thanks a bunch! I was torn between my cool beryl effects and watching my digital video collection (switching the compositing on an off was not very impressive). Now I can wobble Totem all over the place while watching a video! Now to think of a good, professional sound reason for it…

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By: Fredrik Wendt

Fredrik Wendt — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 09:38:59 +0000

Hi. It’s great that you’ve posted a solution that a lot of people gladly adapt. I just have a minor pointer for next time: please call it a workaround – this is not a fix to the actual problem, just a workaround.
If you’d provide a fix instead, I’d be happy to donate money or pay you since XV playback is “what we want”.

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By: Alberto

Alberto — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 11:13:41 +0000

Thanks a lot!!!. I need Beryl because of my visual problems and I really needed not to turn it off and on every time I wanted to see a video.

Muchas gracias

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By: Abandoned-Trolley

Abandoned-Trolley — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:22:31 +0000

Thanks alot for this guide, I was using VLC but had troubles with the video output. Was starting to get annoying, only switched over Sunday to ubuntu and almost made me want to go back to windows. Once again thank you

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By: Beryl: What Linux has to offer desktop-animation-wise « sysblogd

Beryl: What Linux has to offer desktop-animation-wise « sysblogd — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 17:42:44 +0000

[...] moved it around it showed glimpses of the video, i.e. part of a frame. Researging the net I found a blog post via [...]

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By: Simos

Simos — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:02:36 +0000

@Jon, @pingpongboss: I can reproduce the issue with VLC on my computer, when playing a video full screen with X11 Video output and Beryl.

To verify that the video really skips, you can

vlc -vvv videofile.avi

The offending lines appear to be

[00000338] main video output debug: looking for chroma module: 5 candidates
[00000338] main video output debug: using chroma module “i420_rgb”
[00000338] main video output debug: indirect render, mapping render pictures 0-7 to system pictures 2-9

There is indirect rendering which slows down the video.

[00000338] main video output warning: late picture skipped (395511)
[00000338] main video output warning: late picture skipped (355521)
[00000338] main video output warning: late picture skipped (315531)

This verifies that the video is indeed skipping. On my system you can also see that the audio gives warnings, but this is due to the video rendering that takes too many CPU cycles over the audio.

Bug reports for VLC is at
http://wiki.videolan.org/Report_bugs

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By: Jon

Jon — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 15:09:29 +0000

I had the same problem: VLC (and everything else, from what I can tell) slows down considerably and eats up processor power when using X11 output. Anything fullscreen is very choppy. Please let me know if there is ever real a fix for this.

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By: Vaggoul

Vaggoul — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 08:49:14 +0000

Thnx

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By: pingpongboss

pingpongboss — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 23:23:26 +0000

I’ve also had this problem. Installing totem-xine instead of totem-gstreamer will make Totem work under Beryl. The problem with using X11 output in VLC is that the quality is very low when making a video fullscreen.

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By: Piranha

Piranha — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 06:51:36 +0000

Cool, thanks. I got already used to deactivate Beryl when I wanted to watch videos. Now I don’t have to. Works perfectely thanks a lot.

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By: Dixie_Flatliner

Dixie_Flatliner — Mon, 21 May 2007 07:53:04 +0000

Thanks, it really helped a lot. But I cant get a good framerate yet on any play so video gets a litlle choppy.
Thanks a lot anyway.

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