GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 728782
Bad performance on 1080p videos
Last modified: 2018-05-24 10:52:53 UTC
I recently updated to Gnome 3.12 on Fedora. I tried to play 2 video files with 1080p resolution with Totem (mp4 and mkv, respectively) and it's impossible to watch the video. The audio is OK. My machine has a QuadCore processor and 4GB RAM. I can play them correctly with VLC.
Which graphics driver are you using, and does it support OpenGL? Can you play them properly using: gst-launch-1.0 playbin uri=file:///path/to/video video-sink=cluttersink ?
My video card from lspci: 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G96 [GeForce 9500 GT] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems Device 10b6 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 42 Memory at fd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=512M] Memory at fa000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32M] I/O ports at dc00 [size=128] Expansion ROM at fea80000 [disabled] [size=512K] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: nouveau Kernel modules: nouveau This could be related to nouveau driver? I think it already support openGL, or am I wrong? Should I try to install NVidia's official driver? And yes, I can play it correctly using the command that you provided.
updating: the bad performance happens with all my videos, not just those with high resolution.
Does this still happen with newer versions of Totem? (3.14.2 just got released with a number of performance fixes)
My Fedora system still running Gnome 3.12 yet, with Totem 3.12.2. I need some time to give you feedback. As soon as possible I'll try the system upgrade. I don't have the original tested videos too, and since this bug I moved completly to VLC. I ran some of my videos with 3.12.2 and do not see the bug anymore, but none of them has the same quality of that first ones. I will try to get some 1080p videos and give you another feedback here as soon as possible.
After a system upgrade to Fedora 21, now with Totem 3.14.2, and a bigger video, I can see that the performance problem still persists. Run the video with gst-launch-1.0 playbin uri=file:///path/to/video video-sink=cluttersink works as expected, but run with Totem does not. Run at VLC media player also work as expected.
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