Re: How To Reduce/Eliminate Horizontal Tearing

2008-12-17 Thread Tino Keitel
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 04:22:34 -, Cameron Hutchison wrote: [...] > For mplayer, this was a matter of running it with -vo xv:port=xx, where > xx was the port number of the second port. This can also go into > mplayer's config file. Or in the xorg.conf, using the XvPreferOverlay option that

Re: How To Reduce/Eliminate Horizontal Tearing

2008-12-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Alex Deucher wrote: > On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 11:55 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> Ross Vandegrift wrote: >>> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:00:17AM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Markus Strobl wrote: > That's not my experience. I've tested most of the possible combinations: > Intel, AT

Re: How To Reduce/Eliminate Horizontal Tearing

2008-12-14 Thread Alex Deucher
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 11:55 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Ross Vandegrift wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:00:17AM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> Markus Strobl wrote: That's not my experience. I've tested most of the possible combinations: Intel, ATI+fglrx, ATI+Radeon an

Re: How To Reduce/Eliminate Horizontal Tearing

2008-12-14 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Ross Vandegrift wrote: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:00:17AM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> Markus Strobl wrote: >>> That's not my experience. I've tested most of the possible combinations: >>> Intel, ATI+fglrx, >>> ATI+Radeon and closed-source NVidia. Only Intel has the tearing issue. >>> All

Re: How To Reduce/Eliminate Horizontal Tearing

2008-12-14 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:00:17AM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Markus Strobl wrote: > > That's not my experience. I've tested most of the possible combinations: > > Intel, ATI+fglrx, > > ATI+Radeon and closed-source NVidia. Only Intel has the tearing issue. > > All the others play > > video

Re: How To Reduce/Eliminate Horizontal Tearing

2008-12-11 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 00:00 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Markus Strobl wrote: > > That's not my experience. I've tested most of the possible combinations: > > Intel, ATI+fglrx, > > ATI+Radeon and closed-source NVidia. Only Intel has the tearing issue. > > All the others play > > video, inclu

Re: How To Reduce/Eliminate Horizontal Tearing

2008-12-11 Thread Cameron Hutchison
"Nick Nobody" writes: >I'm using Ubuntu 8.10 with a GM945 (at 1920x1080) for my media center PC. >The problem I'm running into is a bunch of horizontal tearing on higher >resolution videos (720p or greater). From what I can tell it's not a CPU >limitation but rather something related to the graph

Re: [Fwd: Re: How To Reduce/Eliminate Horizontal Tearing]

2008-12-11 Thread elupus
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:34:47 -0500 (EST), Nick Nobody wrote: > > That would be really cool, I obviously have no idea how to implement it > though... At the moment I'm using XBMC to play back videos and it does > have a "Vertical Blank Sync" option but I'm not sure of how it's > implemented (it cle

Re: How To Reduce/Eliminate Horizontal Tearing

2008-12-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Markus Strobl wrote: > That's not my experience. I've tested most of the possible combinations: > Intel, ATI+fglrx, > ATI+Radeon and closed-source NVidia. Only Intel has the tearing issue. > All the others play > video, including HD-Video, perfectly. BTW, my MediaPC has a cheap dual > core Inte

Re: How To Reduce/Eliminate Horizontal Tearing

2008-12-11 Thread Markus Strobl
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Nick Nobody wrote: That would be just a temporary solution with too many problems (since I assume a real solution will be in DRI2?) The OpenGL method with VSync works quite well. Can you recommend a media player that is able to use OpenGL? I've tried mplayer

Re: How To Reduce/Eliminate Horizontal Tearing

2008-12-11 Thread Glynn Clements
Nick Nobody wrote: > Can you recommend a media player that is able to use OpenGL? I've tried > mplayer but even on a relatively fast cpu it can't playback the video fast > enough (720p content). Unless I'm missing some magic switch that's buried > deep within the man page :) MPlayer can be compi

Re: How To Reduce/Eliminate Horizontal Tearing

2008-12-11 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 21:11 -0800, Keith Packard wrote: > > There aren't any options at this point, but I'm wondering -- is this > full-screen? If we made full-screen Xv operations block until vblank > (which would lock up the X server), would that be an acceptable option? > > It's actually very

Re: How To Reduce/Eliminate Horizontal Tearing

2008-12-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Nick Nobody wrote: >> That would be just a temporary solution with too many problems (since I >> assume a real solution will be in DRI2?) The OpenGL method with VSync >> works quite well. >> > > Can you recommend a media player that is able to use OpenGL? I've tried > mplayer but even on a relati

Re: How To Reduce/Eliminate Horizontal Tearing

2008-12-10 Thread Nick Nobody
On Thu, December 11, 2008 00:31, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Keith Packard wrote: >> On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 23:14 -0500, Nick Nobody wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I'm using Ubuntu 8.10 with a GM945 (at 1920x1080) for my media center >>> PC. >>> The problem I'm running into is a bunch of horizontal tearin

Re: How To Reduce/Eliminate Horizontal Tearing

2008-12-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Keith Packard wrote: > On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 23:14 -0500, Nick Nobody wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm using Ubuntu 8.10 with a GM945 (at 1920x1080) for my media center PC. >> The problem I'm running into is a bunch of horizontal tearing on higher >> resolution videos (720p or greater). From what I can t

[Fwd: Re: How To Reduce/Eliminate Horizontal Tearing]

2008-12-10 Thread Nick Nobody
Forgot to "reply to all" :S Original Message Subject: Re: How To Reduce/Eliminate Horizontal Tearing From:"Nick Nobody" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date:Thu, December 11, 2008 00:30 To: "K

Re: How To Reduce/Eliminate Horizontal Tearing

2008-12-10 Thread Keith Packard
On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 23:14 -0500, Nick Nobody wrote: > Hello, > > I'm using Ubuntu 8.10 with a GM945 (at 1920x1080) for my media center PC. > The problem I'm running into is a bunch of horizontal tearing on higher > resolution videos (720p or greater). From what I can tell it's not a CPU > limita

Re: How To Reduce/Eliminate Horizontal Tearing

2008-12-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Nick Nobody wrote: > Hello, > > I'm using Ubuntu 8.10 with a GM945 (at 1920x1080) for my media center PC. > The problem I'm running into is a bunch of horizontal tearing on higher > resolution videos (720p or greater). From what I can tell it's not a CPU > limitation but rather something related t