(In reply to comment #87) > (In reply to comment #85) > > I can still see tearing with GL rendering. It's much less noticeable, but > > it's > > there. I can see it clearly when I'm watching basketball games in a 1080p TV > > (using HDMI), specially during the fastbreak, when the camera pans quickly. > > But > > yea, it's much better than X11, Xv or anything like that. Is this expected? > > I > > tested both with mplayer and VLC (glx output). > > > You might be seeing the effect as shown in my attachment > (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=47585), which according to > daniel vetter is "probably unfixable". I think this is because possibly that > is > actually an artifact of capturing the screenshot. However something else which > happens for me is that in the vertical-bars video the bars don't move smoothly > across the screen. I don't know how to really explain it, but it is as if my > screen has a really slow switching time, so that the front of the bars (as > they > move) lights up, while the rear fades out. However this fading is not gradual, > but seems to happen with a lot of 'blinking'. I'm not sure what is causing > this > yet, but I think it might be some artifact of the screen (seems to happen with > some bars painted in the gimp, too), it looks quite weird. > Anyway make sure it's none of that, take a picture with a (decent) camera.
Note though that I'm seeing this in video, I'm not trying to take screenshots. Just to be clear. > > I can't even test VAAPI. VLC supports it, but when I enable it, I get 100% > > CPU > > usage and less than 1 FPS for some reason. There's the mplayer patches for > > VAAPI support, but it seems in very bad shape. Is there a test program for > > VAAPI? > You can try the mplayer-vaapi branch at git://gitorious.org/vaapi/mplayer.git > , > which is maintained by Gwenole Beauchesne, who also works on intel's vaapi > support. The mplayer version it is based on is quite old, and it is based on > the original mplayer (not mplayer2), but it works fine nonetheless. I'll check that out, thanks. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-intel 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/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
