[mythtv-users] video playback profile for Intel graphics

[James Miller]

On Sat, 22 Oct 2016, Hamish Moffatt wrote:

> 1. Bad tearing near the top of the screen. This has been an issue in earlier 
> Myth versions as well on this hardware, although I feel like maybe it's worse 
> now. It might also be worse depending on the source material frame rate.

I'm using Intel i965 driver for Intel(R) Bay Trail and VAAPI on my Liva X 
system and had a similar tearing problem. I fixed it by adding a stanza to 
xorg.conf (actually to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf on this Gentoo 
system):

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Intel Graphics"
    Driver      "intel"
    Option      "TearFree"    "true"
EndSection

I wrote about that on the Gentoo forums at 
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1006786-start-25.html if you are 
interested in any further background. Not sure whether that will resolve 
your issue but it could be worth considering.