Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee — Issue #56: Tearing when playing videos
Author: panuh
Created: 2012-01-23 21:45:12+00:00
State: open

Distribution: Arch Linux (3.2.1-1-ARCH)
optirun (Bumblebee) 3.0-2-ge37ae26
Nvidia driver: 290.10
GPU: GeForce GT 555M
baseboard-manufacturer: CLEVO CO.
baseboard-product-name: W150HRM
baseboard-version : N/A
system-manufacturer : CLEVO CO.
system-product-name : W150HRM
system-version : N/A
bios-vendor : American Megatrends Inc.
bios-version : 4.6.4
bios-release-date : 06/28/2011

I get a lot of tearing when playing any video. The problem happens when playing a video using either mplayer or Adobe Flash. It's probably a vsync issue. I've tried to enable and disable vsync from Nvidia settings which didn't help. Without optirun there's still some tearing. With optirun the tearing is so bad videos are almost unwatchable. I've tried different settings in mplayer, like -vsync and -vo gl.