Tear-Free, Hardware-Accelerated Video On Wayland

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Tear-Free, Hardware-Accelerated Video On Wayland

Kristian Høgsberg has demonstrated that tear-free video playback on Wayland is a reality and that running Wayland on Intel hardware does allow for hardware-accelerated video playback thanks to VA-API support...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTE3MTU

[uid313]

Is this something exclusive to Wayland, or have this been something X could do for a long time?

[ChemicalBrother]

Is this something exclusive to Wayland, or have this been something X could do for a long time?

Real tear-free is not possible with X, as far as I know. That will change with Wayland.

[sloggerKhan]

Man, now I'm excited for Wayland. Video tearing drives me crazy.

[schmidtbag]

*someone watches embeded video on a computer without vsync*

"herp this isn't tear-free!"

[asdx]

Awesome.

Wayland/Weston. <3

krh <3

[ElderSnake]

That looked awesome.

I have a pretty keen eye for tearing and visual inconsistencies, so it does annoy me when it happens.

That looked smooth and consistent as heck.

[agd5f]

Is this something exclusive to Wayland, or have this been something X could do for a long time?

Already possible on X.

[asdx]

krh, I love you.

[liam]

Real tear-free is not possible with X, as far as I know. That will change with Wayland.

As long as you use some sort of gl output it seems like it should be synced like any other directly rendered surfaces.
Also, I thought nvida introduced fencing to X some time ago?