Comment 117 for bug 278318

Atm video watching without seasickness is only possible with overlay output which requires a patched intel driver.
There might be penalties like blue borders with compiz or kwin but at least it works.
I guess nearly every standard user doesn't care if overlay is old, deprecated or 2d if there is no working alternative to watch videos.

If of course textured video uses vsync or similar and doesn't tear anymore I have no problem when overlay is disabled but this hasn't happened in over a year as I mentioned above.

Maybe if you have a time machine through which I could watch videos with a working intel driver textured video output it would be fine too. :D

Please remember that people live in the present, NOT in the future. Nobody needs textured video, EXA, UXA or any other new fancy feature if they mess things up. Workings features should be kept until the new ones are really able to replace them. That's why there normally is a stable and unstable branch.