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Bug 543362 - Metacity's compositor causes tearing in xv video.
Metacity's compositor causes tearing in xv video.
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 518712
Product: metacity
Classification: Other
Component: Iain's compositor
2.22.x
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: iain
Metacity compositor maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-07-17 02:07 UTC by eric225125
Modified: 2008-09-07 00:29 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.21/2.22


Description eric225125 2008-07-17 02:07:54 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
I get tearing in xv accelerated video playback when using metacity's compositor.  I'm using nouveau's drivers with my 6800gt.  I have talked to the driver guys and they say the problem is with the compositor.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Turn on metacity's compositor.
2. Play a video using xv acceleration in a media player such as mplayer.
3. 


Actual results:
I get tearing.

Expected results:
To have the frames synced properly.

Does this happen every time?
Yes.

Other information:
Comment 1 Tobias Florek 2008-09-07 00:06:47 UTC 
i can confirm, that this happens (also using nouveau); not that this is metacity's fault ;).

this is on a nv44-based card
Comment 2 iain 2008-09-07 00:29:56 UTC 
Although it doesn't look like it from the descriptions, the solution is the same as 518712: We need to turn off compositing for full screen windows.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 518712 ***