[mythtv-users] VGA verses HDMI

Simon Hobson linux at thehobsons.co.uk
Thu Sep 30 19:43:05 UTC 2010


Kevin Ross wrote:

>What you describe is called tearing,

Yep, that's it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_tearing
shows exactly what I see.

>  and is not caused by the frame rate.  If you're using VDPAU, it's 
>usually caused by not disabling compositing.  You can disable it by 
>running:
>
>sudo nvidia-xconfig --no-composite
>
>and then restart X (or reboot).

No, not using Nvidia - it's an Intel chipset in the box, and I think 
I'm probably still using whatever the defaults are (were) in 
MythBuntu 9.04(?) with Myth 0.21.
A quick look at the settings (via MythWeb) shows that I've got "CPU+" 
set as DefaultVideoPlaybackProfile

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