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DSpider

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Registered: 2009-08-23

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Video tearing with transparency (composite) effects

- Arch Linux i686.
- Nouveau open source drivers (but the exact same happens with the official nvidia drivers).
- Openbox.
- Xcompmgr (same with cairo-compmgr).

Athlon II x2 250 (3.0 GHz), socket AM3.
Nvidia Geforce 7025 (onboard).
2 GB DDR3 RAM (1333 MHz).

SMPlayer and VLC, with "gl", "gl2", etc., nothing works. I have read many many (MANY) reports of Nvidia cards not working with composite effects. My current (ghetto-ass) solution is to click/right click the clock from Tint2 to "pkill" and start xcompmgr. I have also added to the right click menu its own "Composite Effects ON/OFF" category, but I don't use it as much.

What would you recommend?

Edit: I was thinking maybe start SMPlayer with a script that first kills xcompmgr, then restarts it if the application closes. Can it also be done if I press the pause/stop buttons or I exit fullscreen mode? Like monitoring the application activity/log/output/etc and killing-starting xcompmgr accordingly.

Last edited by DSpider (2011-10-25 18:18:38)

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