[mythtv-users] MythTV experience with Intel Sandy Bridge graphics

Andy Burns mythtv.lists at burns.me.uk
Sun Jan 15 22:59:21 UTC 2012


Keith Pyle <kpyle at austin.rr.com> wrote:

> There has been frequent discussion about the state of Intel graphics
> and their Sandy Bridge chip capabilities, so I wanted to share our
> recent experiences.
>
> We started with the CPU++ standard playback profile
> (ffmpeg & Xvideo).  There was a noticeable horizontal tear about half
> way down the screen, most apparent during vertical panning of a
> scene.  This wasn't surprising given prior reports of similar problems.

I have a lower class of CPU than you (Core2 with G35 chipset) and get
silky smooth playback 1920x1080p50 with de-interlacing, the fix for
the tearing is quite simple, once you know ...

add

Option "XvPreferOverlay" "True"

to the Display section

of your xorg.conf, if you have "configless" xorg, create a config file
first using

Xorg :1 -configure


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