xf86-video-intel 2.5 release planning

Robert Lowery rglowery at exemail.com.au
Thu Jul 31 16:48:31 PDT 2008


> 4. No more video tearing
> One of our #1 complaints since adding textured video support is tearing.
> It
> seems to occur in both composited and non-composited configurations,
> depending on what else is going on in the system.  With recent changes to
> Mesa, hopefully the composited case can be solved by making the
> compositing
> manager use scheduled buffer swaps (i.e. using glxSwapBuffers with
> vblank_mode=3 or similar), but in the non-composited case we'll need to
> make
> our Xv and XvMC code a bit smarter.

How about XvMC support for 965 based chipsets?  The 965-xvmc branch
currently only has support for frame based DCT_type.  Is anyone working on
this?





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