Totem 3.4 is a CPU hog

[QuantumKnot]

Has anyone noticed that totem in Fedora 17 is becoming a real CPU hog? Playing a 1080p H264 video in gst123 or vlc uses about 50-60% of CPU. Playing in totem uses from 96% to 110%. How can it be this inefficient?

[lovenemesis]

It uses the clutter-gst for some kind of video acceleration, which I guess might be the cause of high CPU usage.

[screamin_jesus]

I've never been a big fan of totem, and the 3.x series has an annoying bug for me where in fullscreen the controls refuse to come up when I move my mouse...

My advice is to just use vlc or gnome-mplayer.

Originally Posted by screamin_jesus

I've never been a big fan of totem, and the 3.x series has an annoying bug for me where in fullscreen the controls refuse to come up when I move my mouse...

My advice is to just use vlc or gnome-mplayer.

+1 for gnome-mplayer with hardware acceleration

[nonamedotc]

I prefer having both vlc and mplayer around. mplayer cannot play the .ram files which only VLC can (as far as I know).

[george_toolan]

Did you install additional codecs for mplayer like these: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dloa...#binary_codecs

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[QuantumKnot]

I mainly use totem because of its automatic subtitle downloader.