Good news it seems ( and I'm surprise nobody told it here ) , the needed Fix for Totem was introduced by gnome team in April 2012 :
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=674083 But I don't see if it's still working for Totem 3.10.1 which I guess uses gstream 1.0 ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #674083 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=674083 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to totem in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/997370 Title: Totem does not use the va-api gstreamer backend Status in Totem Movie Player: Confirmed Status in “totem” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: installing gstreamer -vaapi from ubuntu repos breaks thumbnail generation in nautilus furthermore acceleration does not work in totem - cpu usage is as high as with software rendering. mplayer-vaapi works perfectly on the same system. gst-launch-0.10 -v filesrc location=~/test.mkv ! matroskademux ! vaapidecode ! vaapisink makes it possible to use vaapi via commandline i did not find a way to use vaapi for mpeg4 part 2 video streams. and i wasnt able to find proper values for gstreamer-properties that fix thumbnails and acceleration in totem. id like to share debug information. just tell me what you need. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/totem/+bug/997370/+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
