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

[Justin Randall]

Haakon Riiser wrote:
> [Justin Randall]
>
>   
>> Haakon Riiser wrote:
>>     
>>> Which output drivers are you using, btw?  Nvidia's drivers
>>> implement the xv accelerated video output, so it sounds a little
>>> strange when you refer to xv as if it were in opposition to using
>>> Nvidia's drivers. :-)
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> I believe it's just called 'nvidia' in my xorg.conf file.  When I look 
>> at what mplayer is using, it is -vo gl (must be OpenGL?)  Anyway, that 
>> should solve your problem if your graphics card supports OpenGL 
>> rendering.  -vo gl 
>>     
>
> -vo gl failed horribly when composite was enabled:  lots of
> garbage displayed on the screen, and a non-responsive mplayer
> that would've forced me to switch to the text console to kill
> some processes if it hadn't died by itself after a while.  -vo gl
> works fine now though, with composite disabled.
>
> The fact that opengl failed with composite enabled is also something
> of a mystery, by the way, since I am using other opengl applications
> that have no problems with it.
>
>   
Interesting.  I don't appear to have the problem, and compositing is 
enabled for me.  I'm sorry to not be much help on this, but I am not 
sure what is going wrong.  If it helps I'm using Compiz Fusion from the 
ubuntu 8.04 repos, and mplayer compiled from svn version rev 26924 from 
May 29, 2008.