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Re: KWin effects & video playback
by Sutoka on Monday 26/Mar/2007, @08:36

KWin would mess up video playback as much as Beryl and Compiz (they all use the same thing). Most likely your problem is your video card's drivers aren't very good (the fglrx drivers are horrid (the Xv extension doesn't work when theres a GL window active, which obvious would cause problems with the GL compositors where the screen is composited with GL), can't test the 'ati' OSS driver because my video card is too new). The 'nvidia' driver is really good (playing video works great), but the OSS 'nv' driver is still too primitive (not sure how the latest development effort is going though), I believe the OSS intel drivers are supposed to be pretty good at handling all that though (but I seriously doubt they perform as well as the 'nvidia' driver simply because the hardware is far better). I don't believe anything any of the compositors do require anything more than a half-way decent amount of 3D acceleration so most likely once the various drivers mature (I'm looking at you fglrx!) they should have no problem handling xglx/aiglx/nvidia's aiglx + whatever compositor you want to run.

If you change the video output driver in the application you're using to something other than Xv (maybe opengl) it /should/ work then.

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