Am Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:17:38 +0200 schrieb Alex Betis alex.betis@gmail.com:

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 11:14 PM, Torgeir Veimo torgeir@pobox.com wrote:

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On 17 Mar 2009, at 22:02, Alex Betis wrote:

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I gave the nice xinelibout hud another try, but have to revert back since running composite manager creates tearing while watching movies. I've tries with xcompmgr with -n option.

Does anybody know how to fix that? Or maybe there is another lightweight composite manager available?

This is usually caused by the gfx driver in question. If you're running on intel gfx hardware, there might be an updated xorg driver that fixes it.

I'm with nVidia 8400 and 180.29 drivers.

Without the manager there is no tearing, so I believe the settings are ok.nvidia-settings -a :1.0/SyncToVBlank=1 &

Play a little bit with this settings: nvidia-settings -a :1.0/AllowFlipping=1 nvidia-settings -a :1.0/XVideoTextureSyncToVBlank=1 nvidia-settings -a :1.0/XVideoBlitterSyncToVBlank=0 nvidia-settings -a :1.0/XVideoSyncToDisplay=256 nvidia-settings -a :1.0/SyncToVBlank=1 nvidia-settings -a :1.0/XVideoTextureSyncToVBlank=1 The last two are most promising. Don't forget to use the apropriate Display instead of :1.0

Gerald

2009/3/18 Jörn Reder joern@zyn.de

Alex Betis wrote:

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I gave the nice xinelibout hud another try, but have to revert back since running composite manager creates tearing while watching movies. I've tries with xcompmgr with -n option.

Does anybody know how to fix that? Or maybe there is another lightweight composite manager available?

Without xcompmgr running there is no tearing at all.

This is a known limitation of (at least) the NVidia drivers. Quoting the NVidia README:

--snip--

The Composite extension also causes problems with other driver components:

[...]

On X.Org 7.1 and higher, the driver will properly redirect video into
offscreen pixmaps. Note that the Xv adaptors will ignore the
sync-to-vblank option when drawing into a redirected window.

--snip--

Thanks for the info. How can I check the X.Org version I have? I've looked on xorg modules in yumex and see some of them are 7.3.5, 7.3.9, 7.4

Regards,

Jörn

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2009/3/18 Jörn Reder joern@zyn.de

Alex Betis wrote:

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I gave the nice xinelibout hud another try, but have to revert back since running composite manager creates tearing while watching movies. I've tries with xcompmgr with -n option.

Does anybody know how to fix that? Or maybe there is another lightweight composite manager available?

Without xcompmgr running there is no tearing at all.

This is a known limitation of (at least) the NVidia drivers. Quoting the NVidia README:

--snip--

The Composite extension also causes problems with other driver components:

[...]

On X.Org 7.1 and higher, the driver will properly redirect video into
offscreen pixmaps. Note that the Xv adaptors will ignore the
sync-to-vblank option when drawing into a redirected window.

--snip--

Regards,

Jörn

Jörn, You didn't reply to my last posts.

Following is my system X version, I can't find anything similar to version 7.1 mentioned in your quote, do you know what component version they reffer?

X.Org X Server 1.5.3 Release Date: 5 November 2008 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.18-128.1.1.el5 i686 Current Operating System: Linux htpc 2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.i686 #1 SMP Mon Feb 23 13:21:22 EST 2009 i686 Build Date: 10 March 2009 07:20:48PM Build ID: xorg-x11-server 1.5.3-15.fc10

Thanks.

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