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vlatko27

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Registered: 2012-08-18

Posts: 10

tearing video playback with radeon open source

Hi all, I'm pretty new to Arch. I've got almost everything set up and working nicely, except video playback.

I get a lot of tearing using the open source drivers. It happens both with mPlayer(no matter which output is chosen) and VLC. Happened in Ubuntu and happens in Arch. In Ubuntu the only thing that solved it was enabling Tear Free Desktop from CCC(which enable VSYNC and Tripple Buffering), but I wanna stick to open source drivers in Arch(that's the prefered choice according to the Wiki).

Can I enable VSYNC in these drivers? Please help.

Not sure if it matters, but I'm running GNOME 3.

Thanks!

David Batson

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Registered: 2011-10-13

Posts: 640

Re: tearing video playback with radeon open source

Maybe you will find something useful here: http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature/#VSYNC

Or here: http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.p … s-Showdown

I am not currently using ATI hardware to tell you exactly what's needed.  Using a compositor such as Compiz might make the difference.

Rasi

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-08-14

Posts: 1,914

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Re: tearing video playback with radeon open source

Option "EXAVSync" "yes"
can help. but it can also give less performance.

Just wait for wayland, hehe...

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