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[Hendy Irawan <hendy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

"You should not experience tearing if you disable compositing and use gl
or vaapi output. Tearing still happens with xv/x11 due to vsync not
working properly on Sandy Bridge yet, even with compositing disabled."

- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-
intel/+bug/755841/comments/89

I confirm that this workaround works on my system with Intel/ATI Hybrid
graphics, using Intel graphics as active. I'm in KDE, before playing
video I will switch off KDE compositing (Alt+Shift+F2) then play video
using mplayer with gl output. No tearing at all! :-) Finally, I can
watch movies in great shape on my 32" HDMI TV ^_^

Using VLC still tears, because when with VLC-GLX the video is corrupted,
and with XV there's still video tearing even with compositing disabled.

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  [sandybridge] Graphics tearing when playing video

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