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Weegee

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Registered: 2010-08-06

Posts: 62

[SOLVED] Tearing when watching fullscreen videos on TV

Hey there,

this is my current setup:

• PC running GNOME 3.16 with a NVIDIA GTX 670 using the proprietary drivers (352.30 at the moment)

• Main monitor connected via DVI, TV connected via HDMI and configured as a second monitor in GNOME

• mpv as my video player of choice, using the opengl-hq video output

• Sync to VBlank activated in the NVIDIA driver settings

What happens is that I can watch videos on my TV without any tearing whatsoever as long as the player window isn't in fullscreen mode, once I switch to fullscreen I immediately get lots of tearing. I've tried setting the framerate manually in mpv, using different vo= options, different video players (GNOME's own video player Totem seemed to have the least amount of tearing, but had issues with subtitles, so I can't really use it), tried it on my main screen as well (no tearing whatsoever in fullscreen mode there), but the result was always the same. I've run out of ideas now, and I don't even know if this is a mpv, NVIDIA driver or X issue ... though I just assume that X is at fault here, because, well, it's X. I haven't tried the HDMI output using Wayland on my laptop yet, maybe I'll check that out later just to see what happens.

Does anyone know what else I could try to get rid of the tearing?

Last edited by Weegee (2015-08-28 04:14:43)

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V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,076

Re: [SOLVED] Tearing when watching fullscreen videos on TV

You probably want to take a look at the second paragraph of https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GN … D_Graphics

Head_on_a_Stick

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From: The Wirral

Registered: 2014-02-20

Posts: 8,999

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Re: [SOLVED] Tearing when watching fullscreen videos on TV

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NV … ries_cards

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Weegee

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Registered: 2010-08-06

Posts: 62

Re: [SOLVED] Tearing when watching fullscreen videos on TV

You probably want to take a look at the second paragraph of https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GN … D_Graphics

I already tried that, unfortunately to no avail.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NV … ries_cards

That seems to have done the trick now, thanks a lot! Don't know why I didn't see this in the wiki before.

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samkostka

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From: Smallest State, Longest Name

Registered: 2015-09-07

Posts: 18

Re: [SOLVED] Tearing when watching fullscreen videos on TV

Hi, I'm also having some tearing issues here on my setup.  I have a GTX 650 Ti Boost, and I read the links you posted.  However, I am having trouble getting the solutions to work.  The way it is now, I have a VGA monitor off to the side running off of the DVI-I from my GPU, and my primary monitor is using DVI-D.  I tried running the command to force a full composition pipeline, and I think it fixed my screen tearing, but it also disabled my left monitor, and opening nvidia-settings to re-enable Twinview disabled the fix.  How can I force a full composition pipeline, and get Twinview to sync to my DVI-D monitor?  I really don't care about the secondary one much at all, but gaming is hard with the horrible screen tearing.