Video too slow...

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Hi again… see I have an Intel 965 GM graphics controller, wich wuns smoothly on Vista. The deal is that in openSUSE it runs graphics really slow. When watching videos I see it’s kind of slow, and when activating the Desktop Effects even browsing in Firefox can be an annoying experience, forget about watching videos while compiz fusion is running, it looks like stop-motion.

Please help.

Dell Inspiron 1525
Intel gm 965
Core 2 DUo 1,83 GHz
2 GB RAM
120 GB HD
openSUSE 11.0 x64

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Intel graphics chipsets with shared memory do have some issues with openGL games and video playback, but there may be some optimization that can be done.

Don’t enable the compiz eye-candy, use the kwin window manager.
This thread suggests making sure refresh rate of monitor is similar to video being played (or a multiple of).

Post your xorg.conf here as well. Maybe there are some options that can be added. This Ubuntu thread contains a discussion about XAA and EXA options in xorg.conf. Not sure how up to date it is though.

BTW, what video player are you using? The playback engine makes a difference. For example, you can set MPlayer to use Xv, X11, gl, xvidix etc. See MPlayer FAQ. There is some information about the various video output engines.

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Here’s the xorg file: http://pastebin.com/f17b1f1fd

I usually use Kaffeine to play my videos.

… I was thinking could it be a driver problem? Tried to install the driver available on Intel Linux Graphics but couldn’t get it to install (configure, make, make install)

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switch desktop effects off
see your xorg inf:

  1. Section “Extensions”
  2. Option “Composite” “on”
  3. EndSection

go to config desktop - advanced - session manager (use kwin) NOT COMPIZ
Ctrl-alt-backspace : to restart desktop

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try adding these settings to your xorg.conf in the device section:


  Option       "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
  Option       "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
  Option       "DRI"        	"true"	
  Option       "AccelMethod"	"Xaa"	# Xaa old stable, EXA is new and better.

AccelMethod can be Xaa or EXA depending on the chipset. Try both to see which works better.

Also this Intel issue seems to have mainly appeared after an xorg video driver update two weeks ago.
What is also an option is to downgrade the xorg-X11-driver-video package back to 7.3-138.2 which is the one from the install media (DVD in my case).
7.3-138.3 seems to be giving the slow graphics issue on some chip sets.

hope that helps,
Wj