[MPlayer-users] Poor DVD performance

[Paul Eggleton]

Rogério Brito wrote:
> What exactly is this tearing you mention? I'm curious, because
> I have never seen that (but that's because I may have not paid
> enough attention to the output).

It's where during high motion scenes only part of the frame gets drawn
before it's time to draw the next frame. So you see part of one frame and
part of the other - it looks like the image has been torn along the boundary
between the two frames (usually horizontal).

- Paul