Bad video when using desktop effects

[jurco]

Hi,
I would like to use KDE desktop effects, but I can not because when the effects are enabled then the video (fullscreen video via VLC) is bad (bad quality, not smooth).
When I desable the effects, everything is OK.

I use OpenGl.
When I ****ch to Xrender then I dont have any desktop effects even if they are turned on.

How can I have both - desktop effect and smooth fullscreen video?

thanks

[Rog131]

Re: Bad video when using desktop effects

Have you tried ? VLC > Tools > Preferences > Video > Output (xv / X11)


Your hardware / drivers / xorg.conf settings ?

[xykivo]

Re: Bad video when using desktop effects

AFAIK this can happen when the video player uses a different video system than the desktop.

If KWin uses X11 change VLC settings to use X11.
if KWin uses direct rendering (=video driver) then change VLC settings to use direct rendering (=video driver)

Hope this helps

[SlyFerret]

Re: Bad video when using desktop effects

Out of curiosity, what video chipset is in your system?

The reason I ask is because many users (myself included) are experiencing problems with the Intel driver in Kubuntu 9.04, namely performance that is pretty awful.

I turned off desktop effects on my system, which helped some, but it's still not perfect.

-SF