Mplayer is at the top when the video is played directly and in both modes you provided( -vo xv and -vo gl) , just like with vlc. Mplayer -vo xv is a lot better quality than mplayer -vo gl though; probably the best it's performed so far.
Also as previously stated-- the issue occurs with every media player, youtube videos (html5 and flash). Any HD video on youtube is really bad quality in HD (especially 1080p) but in Mac OSX all players run with exceptional quality and without lag in all videos. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-intel in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1103236 Title: Choppy and pixelated video on Macbook Air 5,1. Unable to run/view HD videos at all Status in “xserver-xorg-video-intel” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: *** I reported this as a question on Ask Ubuntu and was told this is a bug. http://askubuntu.com/questions/245584/choppy-and-pixelated-video- on-macbook-air-5-1-unable-to-run-view-hd-videos-at-a *** I'm currently running 13.04 and the video is extremely choppy and pixelated on any video program I run (vlc, mplayer, totem etc.), any flash or html5 videos, and HD videos won't play in a reasonable way at all (entire frames get skipped and video footage is completely distorted; I would say it's about 10 FPS on HD videos, really extremely bad quality). Also, I had this exact problem on 12.04 and 12.10 and was kind of hoping 13.04 would be better, but it is not. Video in Mac OSX works excellent, no lag or quality loss, works perfect in that OS. I would attach some sort of log file but I don't know how and would need directions to do so. Specs - Macbook Air 5,1 ,8 gig ram , 256 ssd , Intel® Core™ i7-3667U CPU @ 2.00GHz × 4 , Intel® Ivybridge Mobile *-display description: VGA compatible controller product: 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 2 bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0 version: 09 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom configuration: driver=i915 latency=0 resources: irq:46 memory:a0000000-a03fffff memory:90000000-9fffffff ioport:2000(size=64) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/1103236/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
