[gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia and poor codec performance (sync)

[Nikos Chantziaras]

Ah, then you appear to have a different problem then the known Xv one.

Have you tried mpv instead? It's the media-video/mpv package. It 
probably won't help, but it's worth a shot. (mpv is based on mplayer but 
note that it doesn't work with SMPlayer.)


On 16/01/14 16:06, João Matos wrote:
> When using mplayer, I switched between all possible output. I used to
> use vdpau. I had the same problem with vlc and kaffeine. Nvidia vsync
> option also haven't work.
>
>
> 2014/1/16 Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com <mailto:realnc@×××××.com>>
>
>     On 16/01/14 03:12, João Matos wrote:
>
>         Dear list,
>
>         I'm having problem to watch videos on Gentoo, since I can't
>         remember. I
>         got stripes all the time, but it get worse iv the scene is fast.
>
>         A couple days ago, a friend borrowed my Nvidia gt 240, and I
>         started to
>         use my at-least-seven-year-old onboard Intel card. For my
>         surprise, I
>         can watch any videos without problem.
>
>         Unfortunately I didn't get my card back to do some testing, but
>         I'd like
>         to share it with you to see if someone had any similar problem. My
>         system is ~amd64, including the nvidia-drivers.
>
>         Thank you,
>
>
>     The problem is Xv output. There seems to be a bug in driver that
>     results in tearing and rendering corruption on the tearing line.
>
>     VDPAU and GL output should be working correctly.