Totem broken after upgrade from 7.10 -> 8.04 -> 8.10
 

Totem worked fine in 7.10 with various media types. I upgraded to 8.04 and it still worked fine. After upgrading to 8.10 the player will start and play a .avi file just fine. However, if I change the size of the Totem window the sound continues but the video area turns black and stays that way. It appears that the window does not properly resize - I see fragments of the window cascaded on top of one another as I stretch it.

I did a clean install of 8.10 and added the 3 GSreamer codecs offered when I first attempted to play an .avi file. Same issue.

I have searched out a number of issues with Totem not playing video at all however, none like this where it works fine until the window is resized.

Any suggestions other than use another player or go back to 8.04?

TIA,

Ken

X has changed a lot in 8.04 --> 8.10

post relevant part of

#lspci -vvv

Do
#sudo apt-get check

and post your xorg.conf file (if there is anything in it)

I installed SMPlayer and it works just fine (better than Totem I think from my little playing with it). I just restored my "production" installation to 7.10 from a backup taken just before the upgrade process - as much to make sure my backup process worked.

I do have another 8.10 install as a VMWare VM. It experiences the same Totem issues so I thought I would use it to debug with. Here are the data requested.

From lspci -vvv:

I ran sudo apt-get check:

And the xorg.conf file:

If you do a proper clean install of 8.10, then all of your X-things will be automatic and better.

...the vmware lspci etc are not useful

Thanks, However, aAs I indicated in my original post, I did a complete, fresh install (not on VMWare) and experienced the same issue with Totem as I have seen in the VM and on the upgraded install. All are running on the same PC (interchangeable hard drives - no multi-booting).