Screen Tearing on Video Playback

[Shibblet]

Around about the top portion of the screen, I get a nice video tear when I am playing back video. This happens in VLC, as well as Smplayer using VDPAU.

Everyone tells me that this is an Nvidia issue, but I have never had a solution for it. I am running two GTX660TI's in SLI mode. This has always been an issue with my previous GTX 480, and GTX 260.

I am not running compiz, just Kwin. Can anyone shed some light on this situation?

[SteveRiley]

Essentially, it takes trial and error to find which setting(s) to tweak for your particular hardware.

Start here: https://www.startpage.com/do/search?...screen+tearing

[Rog132]

The tearing could be the KDE setting issue - at here with the AMD/opensource drivers- the full screen video was tearing.

KDE system settings > Desktop Effects > Advanced tab



The 'Compositing' was on the 'Xrender' and the video was tearing.


Other options to check/test:
- Suspend desktop effects for fullscreen windows
- OpenGL options 'Use VSync/Tearing Prevention'