video tearing with textured video on intel card

I have the same problem on an intel gma 965 (x3100)

Same here on an intel gma 950.

You can work around this problem in totem. If you run 'gstreamer-properties' from the terminal, select the video tab, and select 'X Window System (X11/XShm/Xv)' for the plugin option. You can select Overlay or Textured mode in the Device options. Textured mode gives be the tearing effect, Overlay seems to get rid of it. I assume this will work on all gstreamer based players.

by running xvinfo i can get the port of video overlay
then using mplayer -vo xv:port={port} i can workaround this problem.

however this is quite unstable and causes the the display to go blank and the system freezes 20% of the time. The only thing i can do is switch off the power then

I downgraded to the 2:2.4.0-1ubuntu1 version which was the version before the textured video was made default.
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/16642729/xserver-xorg-video-intel_2.4.0-1ubuntu1_i386.deb

video overlay is now the default(and only) rendering listed by xvinfo.

update: Downgrading to the 2:2.4.0-1ubuntu1 version has not solved the problem. The computer freezes with the display becoming entirely blank/grey/green. A hard shutdown is necessary.

Also i notice that when i start any video, the screen flickers for an instant with random colours/lines before the video starts

Please attach the output of `lspci -vvnn`, and attach your
/var/log/Xorg.0.log file from after reproducing this issue.
If you've made any customizations to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf please
attach that as well.

the screen changes to some random color, not just the ones listed above

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)

i have the same problems....intel developers says that in 2.5 release of driver tearing video troubles will be fix,but for now we need a patch to disable texured video!Again on Intrepid i have tering video also without compiz/composite

I can see this issue, too. Kubuntu Intrepid as of today, having KWin effects eabled or not doesn't make any difference. There's tearing in all players I use, even e.g. VLC under Wine.

here we are, the tearing problem seems fixed in the new intel driver 2.5 release:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-October/039555.html

now we just need an updated package

Fixing the video tearing was planned for 2.5, but it wasn't. As says the announcement ipillo refers to ;)

According to that post "(4) no more video tearing with textured video & XvMC" was planned but was missed out on this release. Was there something I missed?

i thing is too late for an upgrade package in intrepid,i hope in a third part repo or i will try compile driver myself but i think it requires an update libdrm

sorry for the mistake!
I have installed the new intel driver from here:
https://launchpad.net/~thjaeger/+archive
and the tearing bug is still there, by the way I have found a workaround to get a decent quality in movie playing, you just have to install driconf and enable the vsync option “always”
This trick works for me and fixes the tearing issue under mplayer (but not compiz)

trick don't works for me,tearing is still here also with last 2.5 drivers and vsync

I forgot to mention that you have to use the GL video driver in mplayer

Tearing video in Intrepid here, too .. :(
HW: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 04)

* Using plain video-overlay XV-port works very poorly, but it doesn't crash Xorg. It is, however, not usable, and there are lots of artifacts, window rendering bugs, etc. whenever it is in use. But I'm guessing the plain old overlay works much better without Compiz (haven't tried, yet). However, in Hardy, using the plain overlay actually worked in Compiz, even though it wasn't properly composited, etc. I'd rather have that, than textured video with tearing.

* Using Textured Video XV-port (default) causes video-tearing, and that sucks. However, it plays very nicely together with Compiz.

* Enabling VSYNC in Compiz does not help.

An update on my last comment:

Plain overlay actually works fine with MPlayer, and then there's no tearing :). Seems like only Totem has troubles with the plain overlay, probably b/c of different window/fullscreen handling.

work for me thanks!
But do you know how set overlay port also in embedded adobe flash player?

Status = Confirmed, happens here too. G33 chipset. Normal overlay works fine.

Tore

Same here. I had the same problem back in Hardy, and then Bryce put the patch in for overlay which fixed it, and there was much rejoicing, and now I think he took it back out again thinking the problem was fixed. It isn't.

Same problem here after upgrading from Hardy.

HW: VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)

Solved it in VLC changing the "XVideo adaptor number" to "1".

To do this go to Tools->Preferences, select "All" in "Show settings", then go to Video->Output modules->XVideo and change "XVideo adaptor number" value to "1". This will force VLC to use video overlay instead of textured.

Same problem here with..

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 82G35 Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2982] (rev 03)

Such a disapointment because otherwise intrepid is very good.

Same problem as well with..

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)

Can confirm that changing the "XVideo adaptor number" to "1" in VLC works!
Overlay works fine in VLC with compiz enabled.

i use vlc and it works fine but i prefer a system wide solution,for example there is video tearing with flash video!
And totem doesn't work with compiz and overlay...

even mplayer works with the setting vo=xv:port=83 (or whatever port you get
from xvinfo)
but flash tearing is one thing that is still very irritating

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:12 AM, khelidan <email address hidden> wrote:

> i use vlc and it works fine but i prefer a system wide solution,for example
> there is video tearing with flash video!
> And totem doesn't work with compiz and overlay...
>
> --
> video tearing with textured video on intel card
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/278318
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

Same here, Intel 965.
The VLC solution does not work for me though.

Intel 945 here. Mplayer's workaround works great. I hope they release an update soon..

Adding an xorg.conf option to disable textured video in Intrepid is probably feasible. I can try taking a look at that.

Bryce,

I think it would be better if your option simply re-ordered the textured video and overlay XVideo adapters, so that applications would use the overlay adapter by default.

Tore

the patch is still there, just enable patch 11 and recompile the driver

Maybe the patch could be reworked to not use the overlay on 965, since textured video should work with it (does on mine, and for many others too).

Timo: I have the GMA965 (X3100) on my laptop. Textured video tears like crazy. Overlay doesn't. How can we figure out why textured video doesn't work for me but does for you?

Here's patch 11 re-enabled, with the logic flipped around to make it true by default. I would be comfortable putting this in as an SRU.

If it's felt that something more elaborate than this is desired though, I'll skip doing an SRU and leave the further development work for Jaunty.

Prebuilt debs available for i386 at http://people.ubuntu.com/~bryce/Testing/intel/

Please test and verify that the options work correctly for you (textured video enabled by default, but can be shut off by setting the "TexturedVideo" driver option to "False"). If it does, and you think it's an acceptable solution for Intrepid, let me know and I'll push through an SRU for it.

can confirm that it with
        Option "TexturedVideo" "false"
i do not have the flickering in video playback,
but each time i open a video in totem or vlc the entire screen flickers for a moment in the beginning now.

Prebuild debs for amd64 http://oil21.org/~j/intel/

Thanks j, I'd also like to get confirmations on this from Ralph and/or one or two other prior commenters before I put the SRU through on this.

one problem i had with
        Option "TexturedVideo" "false"

is that Flash videos stop playing after a very short time.
this only seams to happen with TexturedVideo disabled.

I am sorry, but how can I do this Option "TexturedVideo" "false"? gstream-properties now has overlay enablable and it works great. But is that what you mean?

with bryce's patched driver mplayer works fine. flash tearing still exists.
vlc by default still uses textured video, even though xvinfo lists overlay
as the only adapter available. The screen flashing before any video using
overlay is played also exists.

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 7:52 PM, tghazali <email address hidden> wrote:

> I am sorry, but how can I do this Option "TexturedVideo" "false"?
> gstream-properties now has overlay enablable and it works great. But is
> that what you mean?
>
> --
> video tearing with textured video on intel card
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/278318
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

I just tested the patched driver and it solves the problem for me.

After disabling textured video in xorg.conf, mplayer, totem-gstreamer and vlc use the overlay port and the screen tearing is gone. So with this patch enabled again I think we'll be able to consider this bug as solved.

Flash does also still have video tearing for me, but I think it simply doesn't use xv but videos still play fine and don't suddenly stop for me as j described. I also don't see the initial screen flicker that has been reported.

tghazali: After installing the new driver, you can disable textured video in your xorg.conf. To do this, simply add Option "TexturedVideo" "false" in the Device section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf like this:
Section "Device"
        Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Option "TexturedVideo" "false"
EndSection

Finally, thanks to all the people posting great workarounds here and of course to Bryce Harrington for solving this thing!

Thanks alot

Also have problem on 8.10
Before on 8.04 everything was OK.
lspci | grep -i vga
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)

This bug was fixed in the package xserver-xorg-video-intel - 2:2.4.1-1ubuntu11

---------------
xserver-xorg-video-intel (2:2.4.1-1ubuntu11) jaunty; urgency=low

  * Re-enable 11_textured_video_option.patch, but change logic so it is
    enabled by default. This allows people seeing issues with it to
    turn it off if they wish. (LP: #278318)

 -- Bryce Harrington <email address hidden> Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:55:33 -0800

Fix uploaded to both jaunty and intrepid. SRU is ready to go. :-)

Thanks everyone for the testing.

While the patch provided (http://people.ubuntu.com/~bryce/Testing/intel/) does prevent the tearing problem, it also causes a new problem.

About 10% of the time that I open a movie in mplayer, the screen will entirely switch to one (random) color and flash between that color and black on an irregular basis.

Oddly, the programs running are still responsive (i.e. 'q' still quits, and 'space' still pauses mplayer), but there is no way to use the computer at this point. Switching to a virtual console (ctrl-alt-F1) simply causes the screen to black out. Ctrl-alt-backspace has no effect.

The only way to recover is to reboot the system.

I forgot to mention that the same thing happens without the patch, if mplayer is used with the Video Overlay port, i.e.

mplayer -vo xv:port=84 foo.avi

where port 84 is the "Adaptor #1: "Intel(R) Video Overlay"" port.

Also, this happens regardless of whether or not compiz is activated.
Here is some info on my setup:

Ubuntu 8.10
lspci | grep -i vga
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)

I have the same problem as Tabletcorry. Playing any video causes the screen
to flicker before the video is played using overlay. Sometimes the screen
changes to the random color as said and nothing can be done to make the
display work again, except for restarting. This problem is only on 8.10 and
did not occur on any of the previous versions.

I however did manage to decrease the frequency of it from 20% of videos i
open to about 5% using a driconf fix. I forced mplayer to use vertical
refresh using driconf. After that the flicker still exists but the video
plays most of the time. However the screen freeze still occurs on occasions.

lspci | grep -i vga
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960
Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 9:57 AM, Tabletcorry <email address hidden> wrote:

> I forgot to mention that the same thing happens without the patch, if
> mplayer is used with the Video Overlay port, i.e.
>
> mplayer -vo xv:port=84 foo.avi
>
> where port 84 is the "Adaptor #1: "Intel(R) Video Overlay"" port.
>
> Also, this happens regardless of whether or not compiz is activated.
> Here is some info on my setup:
>
> Ubuntu 8.10
> lspci | grep -i vga
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960
> Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
>
> --
> video tearing with textured video on intel card
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/278318
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

Is there a patch for the 64bit platform? The ones here (http://people.ubuntu.com/~bryce/Testing/intel/) don't work.
:/

Accepted into intrepid-proposed, please test and give feedback here. Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

Using xv still crashes the system sometimes as reported before, possible data loss

Hi,

I have a Intel 82852/855GM graphics controller on my Lifebook. After playing about 10 sec of video the display becomes blank. After killing the x-serverwith ctrl-alt-backspace, the system crashes completely.

I tried to update xserver-xorg-video-intel from the intrepid-proposed, and added the line

        Option "TexturedVideo" "off"

in the device section of the xorg.conf. The problem persists. Is the xorg.conf the correct place to put this? I read somewhere, that the xorg.conf is not used anymore.

I've installed deb from http://people.ubuntu.com/~bryce/Testing/intel/ and added Option "TexturedVideo" "off" to my xorg.conf

I'm using Kaffeine on my Acer Travelmate 4320 with intel 965 chipset, and those annoying choppy playback disapeared.

Everything works fine till I'm choosing files to play directly from Kaffeine menu (File->Open), but if I'm trying to play my wideo files directly from dolphin every time I see a short flash after playing about 4-7 sec of video and sometimes shortly after "display becomes blank. After killing the x-serverwith ctrl-alt-backspace, the system crashes completely."

It's strange, can anyone commit that choosing files using file menu prevent crashing or it's just my imagination/coincidence?

Forget about this thing with opening from file menu. My today experience shows that there's no such connection, and looks like I've a lot of luck yesterday.
Still randomly, shortly after video start "display becomes blank. After killing the x-server with ctrl-alt-backspace, the system crashes completely."

Niiice! I've been anoyed by this tearing, but actually just thought it was my video-card since I've been using nvidia earlier.. This xorg-patch-thing worked like a charm it seems. Just wondering what the benefits of textured video are and why we would want it? And when the new driver from intel with textured support will be shipped in Ubuntu?

tearing is not fix with new intel driver,it seems will be fix only with dri2 infrastructure

I'd love to test the new version in intrepid-proposed, but I just don't know how.

I followed the guide at http://people.ubuntu.com/~bryce/Testing/intel/, but how do I get aptitude to actually update the package? When I run

sudo aptitude -t intrepid-proposed

I see that there is a new version of xorg-xserver-video-intel (in upgradable packages), but aptitude says:

xserver-xorg-video-intel will not be upgraded to version 2:2.4.1-1ubuntu10.1,
to avoid breaking the following dependencies:

  * xserver-xorg-video-intel replaces xserver-xorg (< 6.8.2-35) [UNAVAILABLE]
  * xserver-xorg-video-intel replaces xserver-xorg-driver-i810 [UNAVAILABLE]
  * xserver-xorg-video-intel replaces xserver-xorg-video-i810 [universe] (<
    2:1.9.91-1) [UNAVAILABLE]
  * xserver-xorg-video-intel replaces xserver-xorg-video-i810-modesetting
    [UNAVAILABLE]
  * xserver-xorg-video-intel replaces xserver-xorg-video-intel-modesetting
    [UNAVAILABLE]

Sounds scary. What do I do?

Also, is it Option "TexturedVideo" "off" or Option "TexturedVideo" "false"? And where exactly in xorg.conf does this go? The device section, but which device? Like this (this is from an xorg.conf posted here)?

Section "Device"
 Identifier "Configured Video Device"
 Option "TexturedVideo" "false"
 Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
EndSection

(In the post above, I pasted the wrong link. Of course I meant the guide at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed.)

I have installed the new package from http://people.ubuntu.com/~bryce/Testing/intel/xserver-xorg-video-intel_2.4.1-1ubuntu10.1_i386.deb (verified with dpkg -s) and added the relevant lines to xorg.conf. There's still tearing in all players I tested (VLC, SMplayer, Movie Player). xvinfo still lists textured video output as "Adaptor 0".

lspci info:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:27a2] (rev 03)

I tried all the different formats listed above for the xorg.conf entry: "TexturedVideo" "off" and "TexturedVideo" "false", with and without the "VideoOverlay" line, nothing makes any difference. At least for me, the fix is no fix.

Current xorg.conf in attachment.

I have same problem here but with gutsy (xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.1.1-0ubuntu9.1) and Intel Corporation 82G33/G31, now i am playing with "TexturedVideo" = off . I hope that with this litle hack i can fix the problem.

Thanks for information anyway :)

I have to confirm the this bug.
lspci info:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
I do not depend in nice optical gimmicks and therefore I tried this workaround:
With sudo apt-get install xfce4 I installed another X GUI and until now everything works just fine. A nice goody is the that the system speeds up a lot now. Everything is a lot faster, although my machine is a 1,6 GHz processor with 2 GB RAM.

Sorry I am definitely no specialist but I try things when I get pissed. Sometimes it works.

Hi folks,

for me that patch doesn't work :(
In attach my conf.
In a word: I've installed the debs at http://people.ubuntu.com/~bryce/Testing/intel/
I've configured the xorg.conf as described
but I've always the same problem: with vlc, or mplayer, or another video player, when I try to see a DVD, from CD or from hd, every 10 secs I see a little freeze (late picture skipped in vlc debug).

My laptop is a Dell 620. HTH to try to find the solution of my issue. It doesn't matter if I'll use vlc or mplayer or another player ... I would see a DVD with my new special distro, Ibex :)

Thank you very much for all you made, and make, for this Community.
Regards

second attach

third attach.
I forgotten to say that my distro is Kubuntu 8.10.

Regards

Well, I've found that:

ariela@elendil:~$ xvinfo
X-Video Extension version 2.2
screen #0
  Adaptor #0: "Intel(R) Video Overlay"
    number of ports: 1
    port base: 70
    operations supported: PutImage
    supported visuals:
      depth 24, visualID 0x21
    number of attributes: 12
<omitted>

so, the patch works, but is not the solution for my issue :(
Any advice will be appreciated!

Regards

I must say I like the fix from comment #2 best (with metacity --replace): With the xorg.conf fix I get a lot of blue everywhere, and it integrates poorly with compiz.

BUT I have a big problem witch none of these methods fix; I'm running XBMC and I love it! But no matter what I do, I get tearing playing vids in it!

Does anybody have any ideas on how I can avoid it? (Except from running Windows :S )

Well I found out that using sync to vblack in settings fixed it, though I feel that option makes my system more resource hungry..

This bug was found in the Intrepid development cycle; removing regression-potential and marking as regression-release.

Apologize my stupidity, Steve,

but what does it mean? This bug will be fixed for Intrepid?

Thank you very much for your support
Regards
Andrea

On 12/16/08, Steve Beattie <email address hidden> wrote:
> This bug was found in the Intrepid development cycle; removing
> regression-potential and marking as regression-release.
>
> ** Tags added: regression-release
>
> ** Tags removed: regression-potential
>
> --
> video tearing with textured video on intel card
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/278318
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in "xserver-xorg-video-intel" source package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
> Status in xserver-xorg-video-intel in Ubuntu Intrepid: Fix Committed
>
> Bug description:
> [Impact]
> Previously we shipped an option to turn textured video on/off. For
> Intrepid, textured video was felt to be stable so we removed this option.
> However, as evidenced by this bug, some people are still seeing some issues,
> and wish to still have a mechanism to turn it on/off if they desire.
>
> [Development Branch]
> The identical fix is uploaded to Jaunty.
>
> [Patch]
> The attached patch is a modified version of one we've shipped for a long
> time in the past. It has been modified to default to on instead of off.
>
> [Test Case]
> On affected hardware, try setting the "TexturedVideo" option to false in
> xorg.conf. It will have no effect in the unpatched version. With the
> patched version, it will cause textured video to be disabled.
>
> [Regression Potential]
> Extremely unlikely. It just adds a configuration option whose default value
> leaves the system identical to how it was before.
>
> For people who choose to use this option to turn off textured video, they
> may see artifacts, performance effects, or other undesired behavior (all
> reasons why textured video was desired to begin with). It is assumed that
> people who wish to configure their systems this way, will accept these
> behaviors.
>
> [Original Report]
> Textured video seems to be enabled in the intel driver now in intrepid and a
> patch that made it possible to disable it has been removed.
>
> This leads to severe video tearing in all video players I tried: mplayer,
> totem, vlc.
>
> The only workaround for me at the moment is to use mplayer and instruct it
> to use the xv port that isn't textured. This also seems to confirm, that it
> is indeed textured video that is causing the problem.
>
> I'm using a netbook with a Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics
> Controller.
>
> My suggestion would be to give people who have this problem the opportunity
> back to disable textured video altogether.
>

The proposed package "2:2.4.1-1ubuntu10.1" with
 Option "TexturedVideo" "false"
 Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
resolves the tearing I was experiencing with video on my shuttle kpc (intel i915).

Only using the "TexturedVideo" "false" option resulted in strange color artifacts. Adding the VideoOverlay option seems to have resolved all ill effects.

Proposed packages works for me fine too but I don't know why Textured should be the default?
The only problem of Overlay afaik is that if you use special Compiz effects they doesn't work in this field. I mean who cares? Glxgears and nearly no other OpenGl app work fine with Compiz so why should the video output? With Textured there is a higher cpu usage and the tearing which is of course not as severe as the vsync tearing but still makes movie watching very annoying.

Afaik Ubuntu is for the standard user who doesn't want to change many options to get the best experience. Textured video is something for power users who want special effects even on videos who are also able to set an xorg.conf option.
I mean most people watch videos in full screen so there is no need for eye candy effects.

Btw. I have found one little issue except of the bigger default decision. The option and default value should be mentioned in the intel manpage so every experienced Ubuntu user can find it without searching the web.

While the new/proposed driver does prevent the tearing problem, it also causes another problem as I said before

About 10% of the time that I open a movie in mplayer, the screen will entirely switch to one (random) color

Oddly, the programs running are still responsive (i.e. 'q' still quits, and 'space' still pauses mplayer), but there is no way to use the computer at this point. Switching to a virtual console (ctrl-alt-F1) simply causes the screen to black out. Ctrl-alt-backspace has no effect.

The only way to recover is to reboot the system.

The whole screen also flickers before any video starts.

Should this be reportedas a new bug?

It works fine but there is a short flicker before video start with i965 and Overlay.
It is amazing to take a nearly complete driver integrate a non working video output, make this one standard long before it is ready and then mess up the only working one. So users with Intel cards have to stay with Hardy I guess.
But at least we have EXA.

I agree. Considering I watch a lot of movies on my laptop, it is really
painful when the display freezes up and I need to restart the system
(i965gm). I back on hardy now.

On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 2:58 PM, unggnu <email address hidden> wrote:

> It works fine but there is a short flicker before video start with i965
> and Overlay.
> It is amazing to take a nearly complete driver integrate a non working
> video output, make this one standard long before it is ready and then mess
> up the only working one. So users with Intel cards have to stay with Hardy I
> guess.
> But at least we have EXA.
>
> --
> video tearing with textured video on intel card
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/278318
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

Guys, comment #77 helped me to resolve this issue. Hope it'll help you too. See it below.

> The proposed package "2:2.4.1-1ubuntu10.1" with
> Option "TexturedVideo" "false"
> Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
> resolves the tearing I was experiencing with video on my shuttle kpc (intel i915).

That only works if you disable Desktop Effects...

Sorry, I'm always disabling them.

"Guys, comment #77 helped me to resolve this issue. Hope it'll help you too. See it below.

> The proposed package "2:2.4.1-1ubuntu10.1" with
> Option "TexturedVideo" "false"
> Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
> resolves the tearing I was experiencing with video on my shuttle kpc (intel i915)."

I can confirm. No crashes since I've disabled "TexturedVideo" and turned "VideoOverlay" "on" on my intel 965.
Thank's for the tip enderdsus7.

Crashes weren't the problem, video tearing was the problem...

2009/1/2 Grzegorz Cyuńczyk <email address hidden>:
> "Guys, comment #77 helped me to resolve this issue. Hope it'll help you
> too. See it below.
>
>> The proposed package "2:2.4.1-1ubuntu10.1" with
>> Option "TexturedVideo" "false"
>> Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
>> resolves the tearing I was experiencing with video on my shuttle kpc (intel i915)."
>
> I can confirm. No crashes since I've disabled "TexturedVideo" and turned "VideoOverlay" "on" on my intel 965.
> Thank's for the tip enderdsus7.
>
> --
> video tearing with textured video on intel card
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/278318
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

I have no video tearing with these instructions, that's the point.

> Crashes weren't the problem, video tearing was the problem...

This bug was fixed in the package xserver-xorg-video-intel - 2:2.4.1-1ubuntu10.1

---------------
xserver-xorg-video-intel (2:2.4.1-1ubuntu10.1) intrepid-proposed; urgency=low

  * Re-enable 11_textured_video_option.patch, but change logic so it is
    enabled by default. This allows people seeing issues with it to
    turn it off if they wish. (LP: #278318)

 -- Bryce Harrington <email address hidden> Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:39:03 -0800

I just wanted to confirm again that the fix works fine. The flickering has most likely something to do with this Bug #278146.

Thanks!

Btw. isn't it possible to change to overlay in full screen which would fix the tearing and change back to textured in window mode? At least for the driver?

New intel chips just don't have the overlay hardware.

There was some talk on the Xorg list of a kludge-round, forcing a sync to vblank - which could be acceptable on a full screen window.

> Option "TexturedVideo" "false"
> Option "VideoOverlay" "on"

These fixed the problem for me. No conclusions yet on stability though. Compiz still works just fine. Thanks guys!

Like Arvind, I find that this overlay video setting fixes the tearing problem, however it results in random crashes when opening or closing videos about every 10th or 15th time. Should this be a new bug?

Ubuntu 8.10 x86-64
Intel Mobile GM965

> Option "TexturedVideo" "false"
> Option "VideoOverlay" "on"

Seems to make no difference for me running an Intel X3100 on a Dell Inspiron 530 desktop. Also, it's not just video that tears, it's pretty much EVERYTHING. E.g, dragging windows, scrolling web pages, flash youtube videos, etc. Perceived video performance is just downright horrible. It occurs with or without compiz enabled.

What's really frustrating is that under Vista Aero on the same machine video is perfect, smooth and no tearing at all.

Will EVER be a solution for tearing under intel hardware?

I guess you use Jaunty where the Overlay option doesn't really work.

I am pretty sure that Windows Vista uses Overlay at least in full screen video mode. Some say that the i965 chipset doesn't support Overlay but then suddenly it was possible too. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/152206/comments/15

I am not sure if there ever be a solution because the devs will always find some cutting edge which could be integrated to mess things up because Linux people live in the future and doesn't need working things right now. That's why there is no real stable Xorg branch imho.

Sorry, I should have mentioned that I am using Intrepid.

The Overlay option doesn't seem to work in Jaunty anymore and Intel driver has still the bug there so reopened.

In jaunty I can specify xv overlay by using the option vo=xv:port=97 in
mplayer (97 was the port i got using xvinfo). However I still have the same
crashes with the entire screen turning a random colour and the system
hanging, like what happened in intrepid 20% of the time when i start a
video. So it is not a good enough solution/workaround. I am using Hardy now
since xv overlay works perfectly in it.

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Bug Watch Updater <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-intel
> Status: Unknown => Confirmed
>
> --
> video tearing with textured video on intel card
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/278318
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

The option in xorg.conf in Jaunty has been renamed to

Option "XvPreferOverlay" "true"

It's in the manpage. Works for me (TM), no freezes etc. that others report.

Works for me, even with UXA.

Thanks.

I think the fix might be card dependent. Does the fix work for anyone with a
GM965 (X3100) card?

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 4:56 AM, Andreas Braml <email address hidden> wrote:

> The option in xorg.conf in Jaunty has been renamed to
>
> Option "XvPreferOverlay" "true"
>
> It's in the manpage. Works for me (TM), no freezes etc. that others
> report.
>
> --
> video tearing with textured video on intel card
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/278318
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

I965 should still support overlay if the intel devs haven't removed the code too but I can't test it.

I've so far managed to get Kaffeine and Miro to play nice by adding the tweaks to xorg.conf.
However Totem is still tearing.
Is there specific settings that fix it in gstreamer-properties that i don't know about?

I have this same problem with Intrepid. Video tearing with intel i945 chipset laptop. I have tried almost everything and now run out of ideas.

This mplayer command works fine mplayer -vo xv:port=98 (98 is the overlay port) but I'd like to get it working with VLC and other programs too. Will insert xorg.conf and xorg.0.log soon.

I think this bug should be reopened until the default configuration is tearing free!

Have the same problem with the video tearing while playing a dvd with or without compiz turned on, so also with the gtk metacity manager, the dvd shows big lines. All the other movie files are fine, except dvd. I tried this whole week all the solutions, but none of them seems to help.

Iam using ubuntu 9.04:

Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)

though after testing, kaffeine seems to have less trouble playing dvds

pieter

The G45 chips only support textured video so the workaround is no good for them. The issue is fixed in the upstream driver:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel/commit/?id=67fef27f4b76490be085d232aba0ca9cbb3c5e59

I built from the 2.7 branch and the tearing went away. It would be great if someone could make a PPA of it.

It is only fixed if composite isn't enabled but according to the devs this should be fixed soon.

Btw. there is already a ppa with stable upstream drivers https://edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/x-updates/ .

Can confirm that adding

Section "Extensions"
    Option "Composite" "false"
EndSection

and using x-updates ppa the tearing is gone on the textured video port.

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82G35 Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)

Dear Andy,

I tried these solution, and the video tearing almost disapeared, except by fast actions, it still shows some tearing. parts of a movie with simple camp fire for example.

pieter

Video tearing with composite seems to have been solved upstream.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20664

With the latest drivers from the xorg-edgers ppa there doesn't seem to be any tearing. Although, it did cause some system hangs on screen blanking using dpms/screensaver.

This is still an issue in Karmic. It is better than before but still makes video watching impossible with my i915.
Since KMS it is not possible to activate Overlay output so I need to disable this too.

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