VDPAU with compositing disabled drawing problem
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#416 VDPAU with compositing disabled drawing problem
Hi I'm running
Arch Linux (Kernel 2.6.35-ARCH i686)
KDE 4.5.1
Nvidia proprietary Linux Drivers 256.53-1 (latest)
mplayer SVN r32227
smplayer 0.6.9 (SVN r3447)
libvdpau 0.4-1
I've been having problems with "video tearing" whilst using VDPAU in mplayer. After searching online I found (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=102063) that some people claim to have success by adding the following lines to their /etc/X11/xorg.conf file
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Disable"
EndSection
This seems to stop video tearing when using VDPAU in smplayer but this introduces far more severe problems.
- When ever a menu (e.g. right click on the video being shown in the smplayer window) appears it does not disappear and continues to be shown over the top of video output.
- Move a window over the top of smplayer whilst it's playing video and then away and "ghost copies" of the other window appear permanently over the top of the video playback.
- Full screen does not work correctly. It just seems to draw part of the video in the top left corner of the screen and not draw the rest. It seems if I do the following I can watch the video full screen
1. Open the video in smplayer
2. Go into fullscreen (the video is shown in the top left corner but nowhere else)
3. Right click and tick Video > Visualise motion vectors
4. Right click and untick Video > Visualise motion vectors
Note trying to go in and out of fullscreen multiple times does NOT help.
This is specifically a smplayer problem
- If I use mplayer with vdpau on its own full screen video playback works correctly
- If I set "Advance > Run Mplayer in its own window" in smplayer then fullscreen works correctly.
Other appear to have encountered this problem (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=92940)
I've included a screenshot of the problems with fullscreen video playback although the video couldn't be captured the "glitching UI" can be seen.
Full screen not working... only showing video in top left of window