[mythtv-users] Lots of "tearing" with vdpau in trunk

[Tom Lichti]

On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 2:08 AM, Tom Lichti <redpepperracing at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 1:51 AM, Kenneth Emerson
>> <kenneth.emerson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 2:39 PM, John-Marc Chandonia <jmc at dolorespark.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 08:41:00AM +1100, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
>>>> > In theory, with nvidia >= 185.xx there should be no need to disable
>>>> > composite to prevent tearing.
>>>>
>>>> I run version 260 of the drivers, and noticed pretty bad tearing on HD
>>>> recordings with fast motion (baseball playoffs) until I disabled the
>>>> composite extension.  However, I did the other things suggested on the
>>>> wiki at the same time, so I'm not sure if one of the other things
>>>> alone would have worked.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> FWIW, I was having the same problem (w/ trunk) and applied the suggestions
>>> one at a time.  Only after disabling composite did the tearing disappear.
>>> Using 9500GT with NVIDIA driver 256.44
>>
>> That was my experience as well. All I did was disable composite, and
>> the tearing went away.
>
> Funnily enough the advice to disable composite has been in the wiki
> vdpau instructions from way back when...

Yes, I know, this was a new build and I forgot to set it, and forget
that it fixed the tearing issue. The OP reminded me of it.

Tom