[MPlayer-users] Re: Play movies without any gap

[Rich Felker]

On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 10:47:21AM +0300, Anssi Saari wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 09:00:31PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 02:43:00AM +0400, Vladimir Mosgalin wrote:
> > >  On 2005.07.18 at 17:46:01 -0400, Rich Felker wrote next:
> > > > 
> > > > x11, gl, and gl2 are all broken vo's that no one should be using.
> > > 
> > > x11 is broken?
> > 
> > Yes. It tears (i.e. very low video quality) and there's no way to fix
> > the problem. It's fundamental.
> 
> Is xv supposed to not tear then?

Yes, but broken X video drivers can mess it up. It's all dependent on
the driver and whether it uses the hardware properly or not.

Rich