Forwarding a message from Axel Rohde Hi Chris,
I just tested the standalone OpenGL compositor fbcompose from this site https://launchpad.net/~fluxbox-maintainers/+archive/nightly/+packages fluxbox-fbcompose_1.3.2+nightly+120311-1_amd64.deb ... on a i5-3550, Debian wheezy, xf86-video-intel-2.20.7 using SNA, fvwm2. By just starting fbcompose without any arguments I got rid of tearing in non-fullscreen(!) mplayer2, mplayer-vaapi, smplayer2, totem and vlc/rvlc windows. The latter three used to tear in fullscreen mode, too. Since I was too lazy to compile it, I faked the unmet dependency on libGLEW.so.1.6 by symlinks in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu ln -s libGLEW.so.1.7.0 libGLEW.so.1.6.0 ln -s libGLEW.so.1.7.0 libGLEW.so.1.6 This seems to be the home of the project: http://git.fluxbox.org/fluxbox_gediminas.git/ Before stumbling across fbcompose I tried Cairo-compmgr and dcompmgr, both are unusable as they simply screw up the display. The only side-effect of fbcompose I've spotted so far is upscaling instead of tiling of the background bitmap. This workaround can become a valueable comment to https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37686 for all users of "vintage" window managers. -- Please note that this is the equivalent of Option "TearFree", with the extra latency of going through an external process. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of compiz packagers, which is subscribed to compiz in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/755841 Title: [sandybridge] Graphics tearing when playing video To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/compiz-core/+bug/755841/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~compiz Post to : compiz@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~compiz More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp