> I've experienced the following problem since I first installed my Radeon > VE card under XFree86 4.X. The bug affects the playback of any video > using the xvideo extension. > > When I play any video using any video player (e.g. xine, mplayer or vlc) > and try to minimize the application, a freeze frame of the video appears > and blocks the part of the screen where the video was running. If the > video is running full screen the entire screen is blocked by the frozen > frame. This doesn't occur if I use another video output method, as > when running "xine-V xshm movie.avi" or "mplayer -vo x11 movie.mpg".
I can confirm this bug. It happened here 2 months ago when I used a radeon card (now I don't). Seems that ati driver couldn't clip xv X windows at all.