Fullscreen: video flashes and slows down while bottom control panel hides

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Fullscreen your video (I usually watch online videos in embedded mode 
like this).
2. Wait for the controls bar to hide itself.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
The expected output is for the video to keep playing back perfectly. 
Instead, CPU is wasted on gnome-mplayer slowly hiding the control with an 
animation, resizing the viewport for the video every time. This causes a 
lot of frame dropping and white flashes until the control is hidden.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Ubuntu 9.10, Latest version of this PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~norsetto/+archive/ppa

Please provide any additional information below.
This problem could be fixed and improved in the following ways:
1) When the control bar starts animating to hide itself, lock the video 
viewport size to just one: the entire screen. Don't make it larger bit by 
bit until the bar is gone.
2) Add an option in the Interface tab of the settings so we can disable the 
animation (autohide instantly).

Original issue reported on code.google.com by VincentB...@gmail.com on 1 Apr 2010 at 3:43

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1. Works find on card with decent video drivers. I have an intel and ati card I 
test
with and they both work fine.

2. There is already an option to do this.
Edit -> Preferences -> Interface, uncheck disable fullscreen control bar 
animation

The PPA is out of date 0.9.9.2 is current.

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 1 Apr 2010 at 5:54

• Changed state: Done

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I see, thanks for the info. Thanks for the tip, compiling from source now.

Original comment by VincentB...@gmail.com on 1 Apr 2010 at 6:19