dvd video is slow and jerky

If if helps anything to compare, VLC plays the same disc just fine on the same system.

Same problem here.

   ~$ kaffeine -v
   Qt: 3.3.8b
   KDE: 3.5.9
   Kaffeine Player: 0.8.6

I've tried all the xine video driver settings. The only one that works is xshm. All others won't init:

   Error: Can't init new Video Driver opengl - using auto!

   07:14:14 PM: xine: found demuxer plugin: image demux plugin
   07:14:14 PM: xine: found input plugin : file input plugin

Update: I noticed that this problem appeared at about the time I enabled Kubuntu's desktop effects.

Removing compiz-fusion and all related compiz* packages (through Adept, or the command line) 'solves' the problem with Kaffeine's playback.

Note that disabling the desktop effects but leaving the packages installed will still hamper Kaffeine. They've got to be purged. If you 'need' compiz, you'll have to use MPlayer (with the opengl driver), VLC, or another media player.

Update: Removing compiz only solved the problem with playback of video files. DVD playback remains jerky as Lars originally described.

Sama here. VLC works OK, Kaffeine slow, jumpy and so on..

64-bit Kubuntu w. KDE4, compiz or kde 3d effects not active

Qt: 3.3.8b
KDE: 3.5.9
Kaffeine Player: 0.8.6

Same problem here as in the original bug report - DVD playback in Kaffeine is very jerky, but VLC plays fine.
Up-to-date Kubuntu 8.04 installation (KDE 3.5), default desktop display settings.

My kaffeine plays videos now smoothly, some update must have fixed it..

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10?

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@anybody who reported this bug: Do you have subtitles enabled? If yes, it's this bug:

http://bugs.xine-project.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/totem/+bug/158190.

If anybody doesn't use the proprietary nvdidia drivers, please report this at http://bugs.xine-project.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206

I don't have this problem anymore w. 8.10 & KDE 4.2 and yes, I'be been using subtitles all the time with proprietary nvidia.

@Risto: Are you using the 177 drivers?

Also, if this is indeed equal to bug 158190 it only occurs with the proprietary nvidia drivers.

Yes, I have 177.82-0ubuntu0.1 installed.

Thanks Risto. I just tried reverting to 177, which worsened the problem :-(
But it's definitely an issue with the Nvidia drivers.

The jerky, slow, bursty playback is still very much present in 8.04.2 even without the subtitles.

Package: kaffeine
Priority: optional
Section: kde
Installed-Size: 7012
Maintainer: Ubuntu Core developers <email address hidden>
Original-Maintainer: Debian KDE Extras Team <email address hidden>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.8.6-0ubuntu8
Replaces: kaffeine-xine
Depends: hdparm, kdelibs4c2a (>= 4:3.5.8-1), libacl1 (>= 2.2.11-1), libart-2.0-2 (>= 2.3.18), libattr1 (>= 2.4.4-1), libaudio2, libc6 (>= 2.7-1), libcdparanoia0, libfontconfig1 (>= 2.4.0), libfreetype6 (>= 2.3.5), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1-21), libice6 (>= 1:1.0.0), libidn11 (>= 0.5.18), libjpeg62, libogg0 (>= 1.0rc3), libpcre3 (>= 7.4), libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4), libqt3-mt (>= 3:3.3.8-b), libsm6, libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1-21), libvorbis0a (>= 1.2.0), libvorbisenc2 (>= 1.1.2), libx11-6, libxcb1, libxcursor1 (>> 1.1.2), libxext6, libxft2 (>> 2.1.1), libxi6, libxine1 (>= 1.1.8), libxinerama1, libxrandr2 (>= 2:1.2.0), libxrender1, libxt6, libxtst6, zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-1)
Recommends: gdebi-kde, kdesudo
Conflicts: kaffeine-xine
Filename: pool/main/k/kaffeine/kaffeine_0.8.6-0ubuntu8_amd64.deb
Size: 2497054
MD5sum: cf27376e848abed26a312c8aecef62d0
SHA1: 0209025763132f4dfa578e63913123d08ecf0da3
SHA256: 14059f5c50fc2e75c8c6200f1af9e3d354e208386ee15041c7359719bf341537

@Lars: Was working for me on vanilla 8.04/i386 + proprietary drivers, albeit with a much smaller screen size.

@all: I've reported the subtitle-related issue at the nvnews forum: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=1929108 and closed bug 158190 and http://bugs.xine-project.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206, as this is definitely caused by the proprietary nvidia drivers.

If your video performance is low regardless of subtitles with the proprietary nvidia drivers you might want to upgrade them to 180.29 (if possible) and/or rifle through http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=14 for ways to improve performance.