[Bug 71476] Re: Video scaling in totem is unclean

[Sebastian Dröge]

Not sure if this is a totem or gstreamer bug... ximagesink does no
scaling by default at all so totem must add the videoscale element
somewhere. xvimagesink OTOH scales via hardware so this can't be changed
in any way.

Without having looked at the totem code possible fixes are having bilinear scaling as default in videoscale (instead of nearest-neighbour) or telling totem to set the property correctly when adding the element.
IMHO the latter should be done in any way, with something in totem's preferences to select the algorithm used as bilinear might be far too slow on some machines while nearest-neighbour is still fine.

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Video scaling in totem is unclean
https://launchpad.net/bugs/71476