[MPlayer-users] Tearing problems - waiting for vsync doesn't work with vo_xv

[Haakon Riiser]

Stumbled on the solution to the tearing problem by blind luck:
My xorg.conf contained

Section "Extensions"
        Option      "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

When I changed this to "Disable", the tearing problem was gone!
I still have no idea why my own media player had no problems with
tearing despite having Composite enabled and using xv, but mplayer
and vlc apparently doesn't like it. :-/

-- 
 Haakon