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 >>> resolution videos (720p or greater). From what I can tell it's not a >>> CPU >>> limitation but rather something related to the graphics card... >>> >>> Are there any options that I can enable in my xorg.conf to help >>> reduce/eliminate this tearing? Or is this simply a hardware limitation? >>> Can XvMC somehow help me here? >> >> 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 to do, just stick a 'wait for vblank' command >> into the ring right before the 'copy the new picture' command in the Xv >> extension code. It's just annoying when you're watching a tiny movie and >> your whole session stops responding. > > 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 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 :) nick _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
