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Registered: 2007-12-26

Posts: 46

Intel G35 and Fullscreen Video Tearing

Hey folks! I have an Asus P5E-VM HDMI motherboard with onboard Intel G35 chipset.

I am using the Intel driver for X.

Everytime I play fullscreen video I get moderate tearing. Tearing, in case people don't know what I'm talking about, is when the video refreshes at different time at different locations spread out on the vertical plane--if that makes any sense!

I've tried editing Xorg.conf, tried the GIT Intel drivers, tried Driconf. Nothing seems to fix it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

kclive18

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From: Columbus, Ohio, USA

Registered: 2008-05-08

Posts: 219

Re: Intel G35 and Fullscreen Video Tearing

Found this thru our very good friend Google:

http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11311

Kinda long, but there seems to be a fix suggested in this post:

http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11311#c34

Looks like the intel drivers don't play well with textured video and you have to switch to the overlay port in mplayer.

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megagram

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Registered: 2007-12-26

Posts: 46

Re: Intel G35 and Fullscreen Video Tearing

Thank you very much! I'm not at home but I've implemented the suggestions on that forum remotely from SSH. I'll restart X when I'm at home tomorrow and update on the situation. Thanks again!

AKL

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Registered: 2008-07-29

Posts: 69

Re: Intel G35 and Fullscreen Video Tearing

If the above tip didn't help, have you tried another mediaplayer? I had the same problem with mplayer and tried a lot with the different drivers, but switching to xine solved the problem instantly.

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