[MPlayer-users] Horizontal shifted line occurs sometimes after mplayer launch

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Mon, Feb 05, 2018 at 11:53:30AM +0100, Peter Irbizon wrote:
> Hi there, I am watching mjpeg stream via /dev/video0 but sometimes, when I
> launch mplayer there is horizontal shifted video line. When I restart
> mplayer, it disappears, or if not, I restart mlayer until it disappears
> completely. Any idea please how to prevent it?

Isn't that just tearing due to missing vsync? (i.e. part of the
video is from the previous video frame, part is from the new frame)
How do you display the video? Is it using something that can do
proper vsync?