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thearcher

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Registered: 2010-05-13

Posts: 31

VLC and flickering

hi everybody!

This is my first message here but I'm not totally newbie in Arch (only a little )

Well, I installed Arch in my computer and when I see videos in VLC and have horizontal scroll I see a ugly flickering.... I try to activate vertical synchronism but I don't know If I did it well.

I tried to change betwwen X11, OpenGL, etc.. options but I have the same result. Sure I'm doing something wrong.

Perhaps I don't recipt help cause I don't give all the information... I have compiz and a ATI 5750 with flgrx drivers installed.

Please, help me and excuse my poor english, is not my native language

Thanks!

Last edited by thearcher (2010-05-13 18:47:30)

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thearcher

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Registered: 2010-05-13

Posts: 31

Re: VLC and flickering

Perhaps I have to change the VLC for another video player?

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bananaoomarang

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Registered: 2009-10-29

Posts: 180

Re: VLC and flickering

Are you using compiz at the moment? Compiz does cause flickering with composite on. Have you tried disabling it? This was unclear from your first post.

Crozepp

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From: Basque Country

Registered: 2010-04-03

Posts: 42

Re: VLC and flickering

Hi!
If you want to play videos without tearing with compiz and fglrx drivers with vlc, you need to enable vertical syncronization as "always" in catalyst configuration and in the vlc preferences select "opengl" video output.
The other option is disable compiz and compositing.