Re: [Intel-gfx] OT: Video tearing

2012-05-23 Thread Jesse Barnes
On Fri, 11 May 2012 11:06:37 +0200 Oliver Seitz wrote: > Hi, perhaps one of the experts can answer this in a few words... > > SandyBridge can prevent tearing only by using pageflipping. > > pageflipping on Xorg always flips the whole framebuffer, so it can only > be synced to one output device

[Intel-gfx] OT: Video tearing

2012-05-11 Thread Oliver Seitz
Hi, perhaps one of the experts can answer this in a few words... SandyBridge can prevent tearing only by using pageflipping. pageflipping on Xorg always flips the whole framebuffer, so it can only be synced to one output device. The vaapi-enabled MPlayer plays nice in fullscreen mode (via vaa