i'm not sure if the 2 are related, but here goes. first of all, i uploaded a vid of my playback issues with xine to youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CwYTrMLDRI

this is on either monitor, and watching any video format i have on my computer. it is only in xine, or xine based players, there is 0 issue with Totem, except maybe somewhat choppy playback at full screen resolutions.

my google earth issue is that nothing is shown in the main display, until i click on it and move the mouse around, and then stars show up, and move around, but no earth is visible, and when i take the mouse out of the display window, the display goes back to blank. if i try to find a location, nothing happens.

i'm running slack 12.1, with the Catalyst 8.7 driver, on an AMD Opteron 170 system, DFI Lanparty UT Ultra-D motherboard, 2gb memory, x800gto video card, and audigy 2 zs platinum pro sound card. running in a dual head configuration, 1440x900 on each monitor, and i have compiz fusion and emerald running properly. using gnome for my window manager, though the problem exists when i choose kde as well.

i've got opengl overlay enabled in my xorg.conf, and i enabled videooverlay just to see if it effected xine at all, which it did not.

also, running "xine-check", i get this

"[ hint ] Your X server doesn't support YV12 overlays."

as well as this

"[ hint ] Your X server doesn't have any XVideo support..."

What happens when you turn off compiz? And/or disable fglrx and use the built in Xorg radeon driver -which supports the x800 series just fine.

i'll try that tomorrow and see what happens. i'm weary of not using fglrx, unless setting up a dual head config is just as easy...

that nailed it, turning off compiz fixed it... so now the question is, is there anything i can do to keep compiz running and fix this issue?

though its odd, the screen on google earth shows the stars still, but earth never shows up...

Try without the fglrx driver, using the Xorg radeon one, or use nVidia .

Ati's fglrx has issues yet, but it is getting better with every release.

i've been reading that this issue happens with nvidia and ati cards alike... apparently theres a patch for mplayer, just gotta figure out how to apply it...

Don't know Works fine on my 3 nVidia systems. 1 is only using TV out, and effects work on the TV. My other systems have rather old cards so I've never attempted to use compiz with them. I do have 2 x1600's collecting dust because of their horrible performance in Linux. My x1600 can't even keep up with an fx5500 -but that's another topic

It's a known issue with ATI cards and the way they do overlay since 8.36 http://support.ati.com/ics/support/d...estionID=26984 <- That's for all cards with the fglrx driver.


Try using opengl overlay instead of xv. You can try a couple of options in xorg like -
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"

or

Option "OpenGLOverlay" "1"
Or change the value in the options of mplayer.

Check your sync values. Try turning V-Sync on or off.


ATI recommends to disable composite in the extensions section of xorg to correct issues as you've explained.

8.8 was recently released with a couple of bug fixes.
http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showt...=video+tearing
http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showt...=video+tearing

The Xv overlay driver does not work by default on composited window manager, you need to use a "textured video" port. In order to do that, you need to use the free ati driver, one of the later version (6.9.0 should be OK I guess) and the latest xine package (1.1.14, as support for textured video ports were added). Normally, that's enough. The binary Catalyst driver doesn't support textured video yet if I recall correctly (but that may have changed in the latest versions).
Check Phoronix Open-Source ATI forums, there are many threads about it.
It's not a Slackware specific issue BTW.