Dustin’s Blog

I’ve been battling with a video tearing issue on my Linux HTPC for the past few weeks. This morning I finally found an answer that works.

Yeah, its a problem with the intel driver… a workaround for mplayer is:

Run xvinfo to find the overlay port, mine looks like this:

Code:

Adaptor #1: “Intel(R) Video Overlay”
number of ports: 1
port base: 79

Then:
Code:

mplayer -vo xv:port=[portnumber goes here]

I replaced the Samsung 226BW with a Gateway FPD2275W. The display includes more inputs including svideo, component, composite and DVI along with they typical VGA. Although the display is still based on a TN panel and suffers many of the same attributes of the Samsung, they are not as pronounced and much more livable. The contrast ratio of this display however is a bit less than on the Samsung. Always a trade off somewhere I suppose.

Here is, the first post in my blog. What a dandy. I kept hearing about this WordPress and I’ve always heard it’s about as good as it gets. I decided I better jump on the bandwagon and get going with it. I’ve tried a few times to start up a blog, this is probably attempt three now, and each time I find that I never post to it. I usually tell myself that I don’t have time, but the real reason might be because I’m just not that interesting. We’ll see.