HOWTO: Get rid of video TEARING in Compiz with NVIDIA

[GameboyRMH]

Worked for me too! Thanks! First time I've had tear-free video using nvidia drivers!

Karmic 64bit
Dual GTX 260 core 216 superclocked in SLI.

[kopiwe]

Tearing is still not fixed in Lucid, but this tutorial works here aswell. updated

[boina]

Great great help kopiwe!!!!! Thank you very much.... I've been loking for a solution to this since ubuntu 9.10 with an nvidia GeForce 7200 SE until ubuntu lucid with an nvidia GT220!!!!
Worked like a charm here!!!!!

[papibe]

This works! Thanks kopiwe , ...but

I'd like to ad a caveat. If you have dual head setup, you need an extra trick (especially if you have two different monitors). The following steps works when the monitors are configured as two separate X Screens.

When you go to CompizConfig Setting Manager (CSM), before going to General Options, you'll see in the upper left corner a field that shows Screen 0, or Screen 1. You need to setup Sync to VBlank for both screens.

The problem is that even if you change that field for both screens, it DOES NOT work unless you do it separately:

1. Open CSM on screen 0 (main monitor) and set Sync to VBlank. Close it.
2. Go to your screen 1 (other monitor), and open CSM there. Now set Sync to VBlank there.


...and then worked for me (I even have a compiz-cube working in each screen!)
Regards.

[Forming]

Thanks , thats useful.

[selittl]

This fixed the tearing for me in Lucid. Using VLC everthing works great. I still get herky jerkyness playing matroska vids on mplayer though. Any fix for that?

[kopiwe]

This fixed the tearing for me in Lucid. Using VLC everthing works great. I still get herky jerkyness playing matroska vids on mplayer though. Any fix for that?

Matroska is only the container for a codec, wich is probably the h.264 in your case. If it is, you could try the "vdpau" instead of the "xv" video output. VDPAU uses your graphic card to accelerate video playback.

[Dakiraun]

Works well on the work laptop, but not on the home one. Home laptop is an old Compaq R3000 which uses the 440 Go GPU. For some reason, enabling V-Sync in Compiz causes it to not come out of stand-by/suspend. I imagine this is just a quirky issue related to that particular system though. The tearing is not too bad on it anyway.

[ymerdawe]

My tearing problem was caused becauce i have two screens. I Started nvidia settings: under the tab xvideo settings i selected my tv to be the "sync to this display device". At first i tried with the compiz thing but i did not even have the setting to set the refresh rate after unchecking auto detect