Re: [Intel-gfx] How To Reduce/Eliminate Horizontal Tearing

2008-12-16 Thread Tino Keitel
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 22:37:43 -0500, Nick Nobody wrote: [...] Sorry, you're right. I glanced over it when reading through the xvinfo output. In the case that your applications use the textured video XV port as the default port, you could use version 2.5.1 of the driver and the

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 the others

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 easy

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 compiled

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

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 Intel

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 clearly

Re: [Intel-gfx] How To Reduce/Eliminate Horizontal Tearing

2008-12-11 Thread Zhenyu Wang
On 2008.12.11 13:32:35 +0800, Nick Nobody wrote: 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

Re: [Intel-gfx] How To Reduce/Eliminate Horizontal Tearing

2008-12-11 Thread Nick Nobody
On Thu, December 11, 2008 22:00, Zhenyu Wang wrote: On 2008.12.11 13:32:35 +0800, Nick Nobody wrote: 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).

Re: How To Reduce/Eliminate Horizontal Tearing

2008-12-11 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Nick Nobody m...@nikosapi.org 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

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, including

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 to the

RE: [Intel-gfx] How To Reduce/Eliminate Horizontal Tearing

2008-12-10 Thread Nick Nobody
On Thu, December 11, 2008 00:16, Zou, Nanhai wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Keith Packard Sent: 2008Äê12ÔÂ11ÈÕ 13:12 To: Nick Nobody Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; xorg@lists.freedesktop.org Subject: Re: [Intel-gfx] How To Reduce/Eliminate

[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: Keith Packard [EMAIL PROTECTED

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 tearing on higher

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 relatively fast