Alex Deucher wrote: > On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 11:55 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@arcor.de> 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 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 Core 2 @1.8 GHz >>>>> and a $30 NVidia graphics card. It has no problems playing H.264 720p. >>>>> The above is using XV, I don't use >>>>> the OpenGL overlay as it had some issues. >>>> ATI does not. Only NVidia plays without tearing with Xv. >>> mga does. Just watched a few hours of shows on an mga G-series and >>> mplayer, tearing doesn't exist. >> Oops, sorry, you're right. These days we tend to think that there's >> only ATI, NVidia and a bit of Intel out there :) I also never had >> tearing my old Matrox. > > Most cards with an overlay can pageflip the overlay so you generally > don't see tearing. It's really only a problem when you use the > blitter or texture engine to render the video.
Seems like most cards don't have an overlay. I mean modern cards. _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
