Please notice that you need to run ccsm on the screen where the tearing is happening.
If you have a TV and you use a "separate X screen", run ccsm on that screen and make the changes there.
Changing "vsync to black" on your monitor won't affect the other screens (a TV or the second monitor running another X screen)
Thank you salous for the solution, it works in Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic koala) with mplayer.
Please notice that you need to run ccsm on the screen where the tearing is happening.
If you have a TV and you use a "separate X screen", run ccsm on that screen and make the changes there.
Changing "vsync to black" on your monitor won't affect the other screens (a TV or the second monitor running another X screen)
Thank you salous for the solution, it works in Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic koala) with mplayer.