Screen tearing with xvimagesink

[Stefan Sauer]

On 09/30/2011 02:47 PM, Matt Hurne wrote:
> Our application is using GStreamer for video playback.  We are using a
> playbin2 with an xvimagesink, and are using its support for
> gstxoverlay to have it draw the video on a particular window.  This
> has been mostly successful, with one problem: from time to time, we
> see some screen tearing.  We do not see the tearing constantly, and we
> do not always see it at the same point in a given video.  We have
> tested playback with at least a dozen different videos, and tearing
> has randomly occurred regardless of the video being played.  We are
> running our application on a system with an NVIDIA GPU, and have the
> latest stable proprietary driver installed (version 280.13).   We have
> ensured that the "Sync to VBlank" option in the "X Server XVideo
> Settings" section of the nvidia-settings GUI is enabled.  We have also
> disabled Xorg's Composite extension.  We are not using a desktop
> environment that requires compositing; in fact, we aren't using a
> desktop environment at all.  Instead, we have X launch our application
> directly via our xinitrc.
Please file a bug as an enhancement request against gst-plugins-base
(xvimagesink). We should probably check for
XV_SYNC_TO_VBLANK atom and offer a boolean property to enable it if
possible.

Stefan


> What might be causing this problem?  If you would like any additional
> information about the environment, I will be glad to provide it.
>
> Thanks,
> Matt Hurne
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