[mythtv-users] Tearing on NUC i3

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

On 27 July 2014 23:01, Greg Lucas-Smith <bwobbones at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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)

no point.

VAAPI is a hardware decoder, and setting the number of decoding thread
is ignored.

You will want to set in Appearance OpenGL as the render.

> * 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)
vaapi isn't nvidia

in any case, this is useless if using vdpau.
vdpau uses its own VSync, and there's nothing you can control in X