Bug#539206: video-radeon: OSD flickering in mplayer/xv

[Michal Suchanek]

2009/7/31 Michal Suchanek <hramrach at centrum.cz>:
> 2009/7/30 Michel Dänzer <daenzer at debian.org>:
>> On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 21:25 +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote:
>>> Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeon
>>> Version: 1:6.12.2-3
>>> Severity: normal
>>> File: video-radeon
>>>
>>>
>>> Running mplayer with xv output on this hardware causes flickering with
>>> both textured video and overlay.
>>
>> Sorry, missed 'and overlay' before.
>>
>> How do you choose one or the other? Are you sure you aren't actually
>> getting textured in both cases? E.g. with overlay, do you see the video
>> lagging behind when moving the mplayer window?
>>
>
> You can choose the adaptor with the option -vo xv:adaptor=n
>
> xvinfo shows two adaptors. This time overlay is the first so it's
> actually the default. When moving the window "containing" the overlay
> the overlay position is indeed not updated as fast as the window
> moves.
>
> The good thing is that this time I was unable to reproduce the issue.
> However, last time the OSD would flicker no matter what options for xv
> I used.
>

Now I restarted X and observe flickering with overlay only.

This seems somewhat random.