[MPlayer-users] vsync not working

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 03:21:09PM +0100, Etienne SANDRE wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> I'm using mplayer 1.0pre2.
> vsync is not working (I have horizontal discontinuities strongly visible when 
> there is a lot of movement in the video) both in windowed and in fullscreen. 
> I have vsync=yes and double=yes in my config file, and I'm using the xv 
> driver with an nvidia GF4Ti, w. up to date closed source drivers. I use an 
> twinview desktop with two monitors. Even setting my vrefresh on 75Hz (the 
> movies are 25fps) is even worse since the horizontal break moves slowly 
> across the screen due to not perfect sync.
> 
> Any clue?

Yes, video overlay only works on the _first_ head. It's a limitation
of the hardware. The other head will use the video blitter for xv,
which _will_ tear, and there's nothing you can do about it. So switch
the primary head to the one you'll be watching video on.

Rich