[mythtv-users] Nvidia 8600 video tearing, how solve?

[Daniel Agar]

> As my myth is getting better every day, I'm getting fussier :)  My next
> problem is regular tearing of the image during playback.  I started
> mythfrontend with "-v playback" and saw these errors:
>
> nVidiaVideoSync: VBlank ioctl did not work, unimplemented in this driver?
> DRMVideoSync: Could not open device /dev/dri/card0, No such file or
> directory
>
> I've got a new Nvidia 8600GS video card...so it should have plenty of
> horsepower.  I'm running the latest drivers (ver 100.14.11) so the feature
> should be supported.
>
> Anyone know how to turn on this Vblank using the nvidia driver?
> Solutions?
>
> Thanks,
> MD
>
Try running nvidia-settings, there's an option in there to enable sync to
vblank also try enabling opengl sync within myth.

Daniel