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

[Tom Lichti]

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.

Tom