Poor quality watching Quicktime movies on F18

[Andre Costa]

On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 1:38 AM, Fernando Cassia <fcassia at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 12:35 AM, Andre Costa <blueser at gmail.com> 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 with its firefox plugins which imho has
> much more optimized video decoding than what the gstreamer spaghetti code
> provides.
>
> Is your cpu old and/or are you playing this on battery power (so cpu
> doesn´t use 100% of its speed).


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 while watching videos.

Regards,

Andre
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