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

[Nick Rout]

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...