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famboozle

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Registered: 2010-10-11

Posts: 7

Screen Tearing With Radeon HD 6950

I am having problems watching DVDs. Every DVD I try to watch has a LOT of screen tearing.

I have tried mplayer, VLC, xine, and totem with the same results for all of them. Currenty, I am using the catalyst drivers supplied by AMD. Enabling v-sync and tear free desktop in the catalyst control center causes the tearing to stop, but then I only get about 10 to 15 frames of video a second. Finally, I installed xvba and tried to use vaapi, but the colors are extremely distorted (the image is either all green or all purple).

Has anyone encountered this problem? Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong so I can watch a DVD in arch linux and not boot in Windows?

Highlike

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Registered: 2011-06-03

Posts: 2

Re: Screen Tearing With Radeon HD 6950

Just use OpenGL as the video output driver. I use "mplayer -vo gl". For me this fixes all tearing in videos and it doesn't seem to skip any frames.