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Old 31st December 2013
shep shep is offline
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Gnome3 adds many additional layers, gstreamer pulseaudio and video composting, to the base OS. Some of the layers are not BSD friendly. If you are using totem in fvwm, it likely utilizes pulseaudio and gstreamer. The Parole video player in XFCE4, which is based on Totem, also uses gstreamer but not pulseaudio. I believe in 5.4 and current 2 versions of gstreamer are utilized as gnome3 required the newer version. Also, if you are starting fvwm from gdm, some of these services may be running in the background. top in the fvwm xterm will let you know.

Another option is to try a different video players. Both VLC and mplayer utilize sndio directly and do not depend on gstreamer. Lack of hangs in either of these two media players would tend to focus debugging efforts and also assist you in choosing a desktop.

Last edited by shep; 31st December 2013 at 04:15 PM. Reason: added comment on composting
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