On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 11:55 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <[email protected]> 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. Alex _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
