tearing in video when composite enabled in xorg
Bug #1037842 reported by
mirak
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #481727: Gnome Shell: Display tears and flickers when there is a lot of movement on screen.
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| GNOME Shell |
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| Ubuntu |
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| Unity Linux |
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Bug Description
There is tearing in video playback when composite enabled in xorg.
This happens even for fullscreen playback
Now that desktops managers like unity or gnome are using gpu acceleration by default, this have to be fixed.
| affects: | compiz (Ubuntu) → ubuntu |
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| Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote | #1 |
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The composite extension is not responsible for avoiding tearing. To avoid tearing requires the compositing window manager AND the graphics driver to both have code in place to sync to the monitor's vblank (http://
For Compiz/Unity, the last of the tearing is being tracked in bug 1037710.
For Gnome Shell, the best existing bug I can find is bug 481727. So this will be a duplicate of that.