[MPlayer-dev-eng] Flickering video when resizing

[Ingo Brückl]

Reimar Döffinger wrote on Wed, 16 Jan 2013 21:08:31 +0100:

> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 08:48:44PM +0100, Ingo Brückl wrote:
>> So it doesn't seem to be GUI code that causes it (except for its window
>> creation, maybe) but some different handling of the window by the video
>> driver, because it's a WinID window and not a window created by MPlayer
>> itself.
>>
>> Anyone any idea?

> Probably the two windows are fighting about who gets shown.
> I.e. the GUI window gets to draw its black background, and then
> the video window on top of it gets to draw its content.

Yes, you seem to be right. After setting the background of the GUI created
video window to fixed red, I get red flickering.

> I never managed to get it work, but I believe it's supposed to be
> possible to tell X to not automatically refresh the background
> of the window, maybe that would help?

That sounds promising, but it is so hard to find useful information about X.
Any further hints are highly appreciated.

Ingo