# Linux player video playback not smooth
**URL:** https://community.xibo.org.uk/t/linux-player-video-playback-not-smooth/26186
**Category:** Xibo Player for Linux
**Created:** [November 16, 2021, 1:14pm UTC](https://community.xibo.org.uk/t/linux-player-video-playback-not-smooth/26186 "2021-11-16T13:14:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Bart](https://community.xibo.org.uk/u/Bart)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2021, 1:14pm UTC](https://community.xibo.org.uk/t/linux-player-video-playback-not-smooth/26186/1 "2021-11-16T13:14:06Z")
Hi Xibo Community,
I recently installed a Ubuntu 20.4 based Linux player using the snap package. It all works great out-of-the-box, but the playback of videos are not smooth. The playback seems choppy.
When playing the video using the command line Gstreamer (gst-play-1.0) the playback is as smooth as can be.
I tried compiling a custom version using the code on Github, to see if a newer version of the code resolved the issue, but unfortunatly this is not the case.
Any thoughts on how to fix this?
Regards,
Bart
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### Author:  [@DanBW](https://community.xibo.org.uk/u/DanBW)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2021, 4:03pm UTC](https://community.xibo.org.uk/t/linux-player-video-playback-not-smooth/26186/2 "2021-11-16T16:03:55Z")
Hi Bart, welcome to the Xibo community!
Can you provide an exported copy of your layout in a private message so I can test this on my Ubuntu 20.04 machine? can you also confirm if you are seeing this on specific videos or if all videos perform the same?
Many Thanks.
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### Author:  [@Bart](https://community.xibo.org.uk/u/Bart)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2021, 8:19am UTC](https://community.xibo.org.uk/t/linux-player-video-playback-not-smooth/26186/3 "2021-11-17T08:19:06Z")
Hi Dan,
Thank you for your reply, I’ve exported the layout but I can not seem to send you a PM.
I see this in most videos in the layout, using Windows (and the Windows player) on the same hardware works great, but who wants to use windows 😉?
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### Author:  [@DaelSutton](https://community.xibo.org.uk/u/DaelSutton)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2021, 2:38am UTC](https://community.xibo.org.uk/t/linux-player-video-playback-not-smooth/26186/4 "2021-11-19T02:38:20Z")
With my Linux signage clients (Ubuntu based) I ensure the graphics ppa is installed and the latest video drivers for your chipset are present. Youtube & videos embedded in Google Slides play ok.
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### Author:  [@aegisgfx](https://community.xibo.org.uk/u/aegisgfx)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2021, 3:16pm UTC](https://community.xibo.org.uk/t/linux-player-video-playback-not-smooth/26186/5 "2021-12-21T15:16:06Z")
Im having the exact same issue on ubuntu 20. Videos play fine in the default player or VLC, but are choppy in Xibo. These same video worked fine on a previous version of the client however.
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### Author:  [@Bart](https://community.xibo.org.uk/u/Bart)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2022, 3:53pm UTC](https://community.xibo.org.uk/t/linux-player-video-playback-not-smooth/26186/6 "2022-01-05T15:53:06Z")
What hardware are you using?
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### Author:  [@aegisgfx](https://community.xibo.org.uk/u/aegisgfx)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2022, 6:49pm UTC](https://community.xibo.org.uk/t/linux-player-video-playback-not-smooth/26186/7 "2022-01-05T18:49:54Z")
Intel Nuc. Videos played fine on this same hardware until last year, its got to be a xibo-player issue.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.xibo.org.uk/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2022, 12:49am UTC](https://community.xibo.org.uk/t/linux-player-video-playback-not-smooth/26186/8 "2022-04-07T00:49:55Z")
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