After I updated to the latest xorg-server this weekend, I started
noticing that movie playback has a horizontal line across the middle
of the screen that kind of looks like the image is broken. It always
shows up when there is a lot of on-screen movement. A flash makes it
very visible. It looks like one half of the screen is moving a litle
slower than the other half of the screen.
It happens in totem, mplayer, and vlc and mplayer terminal output
confirms that I am using xv. I'm using nvidia-drivers and I've tried
the masked version with no luck. Has anyone else seen this?
That's due to the lack of vertical synchronisation.
The graphicscard sends the picture to your monitor. While that happends,
in the middle of the movie-picture, the movieplayer switches to the next
frame of the movie. The result: you see the upper half of frame N and
the lower half of frame N+1
Yeah, that's exactly what it looks like. I tried specifying HorizSync
and VertRefresh in xorg.conf and also a Modeline, but they don't seem
to make any difference. I got the data from my TV's EDID data.
Modeline, HorizSync, and VertRefresh are all defined under the monitor
section of xorg.conf right?
Section Monitor
Identifier monitor
# HorizSync 31-83
# VertRefresh 56-85
Modeline 1360x768 86.96 1360 1480 1528 1774 768 778 783 817
-Hsync -Vsync
EndSection
Section Screen
Identifier screen
Device device
Monitor monitor
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection Display
Depth 24
Modes 1360x768
EndSubSection
EndSection
- Grant
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