[MPlayer-users] Visible tearing during high-motion scenes (was Poor DVD performance)

Paul Eggleton paul at softec.co.nz
Sun May 5 01:57:02 CEST 2002


>> Also, with all the output types I did notice a fair bit of tearing on
>> high-movement scenes. Can this be fixed? I have searched the mailing
lists,
>> the docs and the web and haven't found a definitive answer.

> I had exactly the same problem...If you have a rage128 video card it is
> probably the X-Window drivers in 4.2.  I fixed the tearing by returning
> to my beloved 4.1.0.  Try downgrading and see if it goes away.

I'm using an nVidia GeForce2MX in this machine. I had the same issue with
previous versions of the drivers and X 4.1.0, so I guess I'm stuck with it
unless someone else has any ideas.

Just out of curiosity, have you reported this bug with the ati drivers to
the XFree86 developers?

- Paul




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