[mythtv-users] Tearing on NUC i3

[Greg Lucas-Smith]

Ahhh! Got it!

The section on xorg.conf adjustment at the bottom of this one worked:
https://forums.plex.tv/index.php/topic/110971-definitive-intel-nuc-how-to-guide-surround-sound-over-hdmi-apple-remote-graphics-part-2/


On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Greg Lucas-Smith <bwobbones at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I've had a FE/BE combination running for the last 8 or 9 years in my
> lounge.  The machine that looked quite pretty at that time now has been
> through the strain of 3 kids and looks decidedly worse for wear.  It's an
> old dual-core nvidia based beast and everything still works beautifully on
> it.  This weekend I went out and bought and Intel NUC i3 to act as a
> primary FE so I can put the BE in the other room to improve my WAF but I've
> got problems with tearing.
>
> Based on various forum discussions I've tried numerous things:
>
> * Installed the official drivers from here:
> https://01.org/linuxgraphics/downloads/2014/intelr-graphics-installer-1.0.5-linux
> * Used VAAPI and raised the number of cores to 4 in Setup->Video->Playback
> (3/8)
> * put -bs in my /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/50-xserver-command.conf
> (as per
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/450593/how-do-i-eliminate-screen-tearing-on-14-04-and-xbmc-with-nvidia-331
> )
> * updated libsdl1.2 (as per the previous reference)
>
> And now I'm at a bit of a loss.
>
> Both machines are using Mythbuntu 14.04.  It seems really improbable that
> my ancient ugly computer can playback 1080p perfectly while this much more
> powerful machine struggles with the basics.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
>
> Greg
>
>
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