petsanikas
January 14th, 2009, 05:18 AM
Hi all guys!
During the last days i decided to make my ubuntu 8.10 eye-candy. That is why i enabled Compiz-Fusion, AWN, Cairo-Dock, Emerald, GNomeDo (i think that's all...at least the important ones).
Unfortunately, after all these, i started having problems with video-playback. In many apps VLC, Movie Player, SMPlayer, the video playback skips some frames periodically (every few seconds ~2 or 3). It looks like it freezes for half a second. The strange thing that i accidentally noticed was that even my screensaver (the fuzzy snow flakes) behaves the same way. The flakes seem to freeze every 2-3 secs. Same thing with flash player in web-sites.
I have an AMD64 X2 and NVidia 8800GT. The video drivers i tried are 177 and 172 (i think, not at home right now).
Tried Disabling Compiz but with no luck.
EDIT: Forgot to say that by disabling the nvidia driver the problem disappears...
Could this be a kernel problem? XOrg problem? Nvidia problem? Maybe some of the new apps i installed broke something?
Please help cause right now my pc is really annoying in multimedia reproduction...
During the last days i decided to make my ubuntu 8.10 eye-candy. That is why i enabled Compiz-Fusion, AWN, Cairo-Dock, Emerald, GNomeDo (i think that's all...at least the important ones).
Unfortunately, after all these, i started having problems with video-playback. In many apps VLC, Movie Player, SMPlayer, the video playback skips some frames periodically (every few seconds ~2 or 3). It looks like it freezes for half a second. The strange thing that i accidentally noticed was that even my screensaver (the fuzzy snow flakes) behaves the same way. The flakes seem to freeze every 2-3 secs. Same thing with flash player in web-sites.
I have an AMD64 X2 and NVidia 8800GT. The video drivers i tried are 177 and 172 (i think, not at home right now).
Tried Disabling Compiz but with no luck.
EDIT: Forgot to say that by disabling the nvidia driver the problem disappears...
Could this be a kernel problem? XOrg problem? Nvidia problem? Maybe some of the new apps i installed broke something?
Please help cause right now my pc is really annoying in multimedia reproduction...