Re: Poor quality watching Quicktime movies on F18 [SOLVED]

2013-03-22 Thread Andre Costa
Some additional info: according to "running clutter" page, other possible values for CLUTTER_VBLANK are "glx" and "dri". I just tested and "glx" also seems to work fine for me (NVidia driver with sync to vblank set to true). Regards,

Re: Poor quality watching Quicktime movies on F18 [SOLVED]

2013-03-21 Thread Andre Costa
You're welcome =) I felt that very same relief when I tried it out and realized GNOME 3.6 performance finally went back to GNOME 3.4 levels on the same machine. Just out of curiosity: what is your graphics card? Regards, Andre On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Andre Co

Re: Poor quality watching Quicktime movies on F18 [SOLVED]

2013-03-21 Thread Bill Davidsen
Andre Costa wrote: Some follow up on this: found on this thread that setting CLUTTER_VBLANK=none makes it a *whole* lot better. In fact, AFAICS the problem is gone -- even if NVidia driver is still set to sync to vb

Re: Poor quality watching Quicktime movies on F18 [SOLVED]

2013-03-21 Thread Andre Costa
Some follow up on this: found on this threadthat setting CLUTTER_VBLANK=none makes it a *whole* lot better. In fact, AFAICS the problem is gone -- even if NVidia driver is still set to sync to vblank. Other performance

Re: Poor quality watching Quicktime movies on F18

2013-02-06 Thread Andre Costa
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 02/06/2013 04:26 AM, Andre Costa wrote: > >> Quite the contrary: this is a 8-core i7 desktop with a GeForce GT9800. >> It should handle any videos just fine ;-) (as it always has done until >> F18). There's clearly something wrong, I just don't

Re: Poor quality watching Quicktime movies on F18

2013-02-06 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/06/2013 04:26 AM, Andre Costa wrote: Quite the contrary: this is a 8-core i7 desktop with a GeForce GT9800. It should handle any videos just fine ;-) (as it always has done until F18). There's clearly something wrong, I just don't know exactly what it is. CPU usage doesn't spike too much wh

Re: Poor quality watching Quicktime movies on F18

2013-02-06 Thread Andre Costa
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 1:38 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 12:35 AM, Andre Costa wrote: > >> (and this is just one of the quirks I see) > > > probably gstreamer and friends is sucking too much of your cpu with > overhead and thus pixelation occurs due to lack of cpu time f

Re: Poor quality watching Quicktime movies on F18

2013-02-05 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 1:53 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > Unless they removed it, package name was mozilla-vlc > In other distros, mozilla-plugin-vlc > > Sadly the documentation at the vlc page for Fedora is a bit outdated > http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-fedora.html http://packages.atrpms.n

Re: Poor quality watching Quicktime movies on F18

2013-02-05 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/06/2013 12:53 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 1:30 AM, Ed Greshko > wrote: > > > You seem to be saying there is a vlc plugin that can be used instead. > Can you tell me the plugin name and what package has the plugin? > > > Unless th

Re: Poor quality watching Quicktime movies on F18

2013-02-05 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 1:30 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > > You seem to be saying there is a vlc plugin that can be used instead. Can > you tell me the plugin name and what package has the plugin? Unless they removed it, package name was mozilla-vlc In other distros, mozilla-plugin-vlc Sadly the do

Re: Poor quality watching Quicktime movies on F18

2013-02-05 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/06/2013 11:20 AM, Andre Costa wrote: > ... which makes this even weirder :-P Well, thks for the info, I'll have to > keep looking for the culprit. One thing to check. First, since you are running Chome, check to see that "Background apps" is un-checked in "Advanced Settings". Then, q

Re: Poor quality watching Quicktime movies on F18

2013-02-05 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/06/2013 11:38 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 12:35 AM, Andre Costa > wrote: > > (and this is just one of the quirks I see) > > > probably gstreamer and friends is sucking too much of your cpu with overhead > and thus pixelation occurs due

Re: Poor quality watching Quicktime movies on F18

2013-02-05 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 12:35 AM, Andre Costa wrote: > (and this is just one of the quirks I see) probably gstreamer and friends is sucking too much of your cpu with overhead and thus pixelation occurs due to lack of cpu time for realtime high quality decoding. I repeat, try vlc and/or mplayer

Re: Poor quality watching Quicktime movies on F18

2013-02-05 Thread Andre Costa
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 1:28 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Andre Costa wrote: > > Anyone knows what could be wrong? Is this a known issue? > > yes, gstreamer has always sucked. Install VLC and the VLC Mozilla plugins. > > or MPlayer + mplayerplug-in, for that matter

Re: Poor quality watching Quicktime movies on F18

2013-02-05 Thread Andre Costa
Here's an example of what I'm talking about: quicktime quality.png (and this is just one of the quirks I see) Regards, Andre On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 1:20 AM, Andre Costa wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 10:57 PM, Ed Greshko

Re: Poor quality watching Quicktime movies on F18

2013-02-05 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Andre Costa wrote: > Anyone knows what could be wrong? Is this a known issue? yes, gstreamer has always sucked. Install VLC and the VLC Mozilla plugins. or MPlayer + mplayerplug-in, for that matter. FC -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsub

Re: Poor quality watching Quicktime movies on F18

2013-02-05 Thread Andre Costa
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 10:57 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 02/06/2013 08:49 AM, Andre Costa wrote: > > Mmmh,,, that's weird, it's the same configuration here (fully updated > F18-64 system), but all videos play with the issues I mentioned. I'm using > NVidia driver 310.32 installed from their own in

Re: Poor quality watching Quicktime movies on F18

2013-02-05 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/06/2013 08:49 AM, Andre Costa wrote: > Mmmh,,, that's weird, it's the same configuration here (fully updated F18-64 > system), but all videos play with the issues I mentioned. I'm using NVidia > driver 310.32 installed from their own installer (Freshrpms is still one > version behind, I'm

Re: Poor quality watching Quicktime movies on F18

2013-02-05 Thread Andre Costa
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 10:41 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 02/06/2013 08:07 AM, Andre Costa wrote: > > Hi, > > > > ever since I upgraded to F18 trailers from trailers.apple.com < > http://trailers.apple.com> are playing with poor quality (audio is fine, > but video isn't fluid, it's like some frames

Re: Poor quality watching Quicktime movies on F18

2013-02-05 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/06/2013 08:07 AM, Andre Costa wrote: > Hi, > > ever since I upgraded to F18 trailers from trailers.apple.com > are playing with poor quality (audio is fine, but > video isn't fluid, it's like some frames are skipped and some parts of the > screen aren't updated

Poor quality watching Quicktime movies on F18

2013-02-05 Thread Andre Costa
Hi, ever since I upgraded to F18 trailers from trailers.apple.com are playing with poor quality (audio is fine, but video isn't fluid, it's like some frames are skipped and some parts of the screen aren't updated when they should be). I haven't had any trouble with these trailers for a long time