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> After I updated to the latest xorg-server this weekend, I started |
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> noticing that movie playback has a horizontal line across the middle |
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> of the screen that kind of looks like the image is broken. It always |
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> shows up when there is a lot of on-screen movement. A flash makes it |
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> very visible. It looks like one half of the screen is moving a litle |
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> slower than the other half of the screen. |
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> It happens in totem, mplayer, and vlc and mplayer terminal output |
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> confirms that I am using xv. I'm using nvidia-drivers and I've tried |
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> the masked version with no luck. Has anyone else seen this? |
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That's due to the lack of vertical synchronisation. |
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The graphicscard sends the picture to your monitor. While that happends, |
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in the middle of the movie-picture, the movieplayer switches to the next |
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frame of the movie. The result: you see the upper half of frame N and |
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the lower half of frame N+1 |
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Greetings, |
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Sven |
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