[MPlayer-users] Flicker Black Bars on videos

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 06:38:31PM +0200, X3fil wrote:
> Il 29/08/2014 20:11, Reimar Döffinger ha scritto:
> >My guess is that both are equally wrong, so you can investigate both
> >ends.
> >I expect XBMC to be easier to fix, can't be that hard to just stop
> >drawing things in the window while the video is playing?!
> 
> I've asked on linux-sunxi mailinglist as well as on the author. For now I've
> no answers. I don't know where to work on to correct the issue on xbmc
> source :)

Not a brute-force way would be to look out for a function like
eglSwapBuffers/glxSwapBuffers and make sure it and surrounding
code aren't called while video is playing.
I wouldn't know where exactly that would be and haven't had time to
really investigate any of this.