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totolotto

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From: Hungary

Registered: 2012-11-13

Posts: 114

[SOLVED] Tearing in videos

Hi,

I watch all kind of videos (.avi, 1080p mp4, 1080p youtube etc.) and experince "tearing" during fast moving scenes/cameras. It is strange because I installed mplayer-vaapi and the processor uilization is ~10-20% in smplayer, or ~50% in youtube flash videos max. I have this problem even with a simple .avi movie. The settings are:

smplayer, video output is set to vaapi (tried with xv as well)
resolution 1920x1080
latitude e5530 with intel i7 3520m 2.9ghz
no dedicated video card, only intel hd 4000 (xf86-video-intel and libva-intel-driver installed).

Tried VLC too with the same result. Any thoughts or suggestions? Thanks.

Last edited by totolotto (2012-12-11 23:50:58)

sano

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Registered: 2012-02-11

Posts: 114

Re: [SOLVED] Tearing in videos

Try searching the forums, you will find multiple threads with explanations and workarounds (no solutions, though).

flipper T

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Registered: 2012-09-14

Posts: 419

Re: [SOLVED] Tearing in videos

I do not know what DE you use, but when i used xfce4, i could get rid of tearing by turning off compositing.

Obviously, your experience may vary & I no longer use that DE.

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David Batson

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Registered: 2011-10-13

Posts: 640

Re: [SOLVED] Tearing in videos

There are different solutions for the various DE's (XFCE, Gnome, KDE, etc.).

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=129934&p=2

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1143200

totolotto

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From: Hungary

Registered: 2012-11-13

Posts: 114

Re: [SOLVED] Tearing in videos

I have only Openbox installed with xcompmgr. I do not use any DE.

Thanks for the tip on compositing and these links, I will read all that!

sano

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Registered: 2012-02-11

Posts: 114

Re: [SOLVED] Tearing in videos

In this case, and if you don't use 3D applications (games etc.), you can get rid of the tearing by creating the following /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf:

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Intel Graphics"
	Driver		"intel"
	Option		"AccelMethod"	"sna"
	Option		"TearFree"	"true"
EndSection

totolotto

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From: Hungary

Registered: 2012-11-13

Posts: 114

Re: [SOLVED] Tearing in videos

Thanks, you are the man!

alf

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From: Tromsø, Norway

Registered: 2010-07-05

Posts: 35

Re: [SOLVED] Tearing in videos

I have been searching for this for forever! Thank you, sano.. Really, thank you.