[mythtv-users] frontend hardware - any reason not to use ion?

[Fred Squires]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Kirk Bocek <t004 at kbocek.com> wrote:
>
>
> David Asher wrote:
>>
>> On Jan 11, 2010, at 12:27 PM, Kirk Bocek wrote:
>>>
>>> I went through some possibly similar tearing issues with the LCD TV
>>> I'm using.
>>> That plus audio sync issues. After taking the Revo and testing it on
>>> both an
>>> HDMI computer display and on another HDMI TV in the house, I decided
>>> the issue
>>> is with the TV itself and not with either Myth or Nvidia.
>>
>> All my tearing issues went away with setting Composite to "Disabled" in
>> my xorg.conf.
>
> I'm unfamiliar with this setting, although I now see that recommendation on
> the VDPAU wiki page.
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/VDPAU
>
> I'll test it tonight.

You can set it in your xorg.conf file by adding the following lines:

Section "Extensions"
     Option "Composite" "Disabled"
EndSection