about compositor

[Erik Harrison]

On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 22:00:44 +0200, Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at xfce.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 21:30 +0200, Auke Kok wrote:
> > to be honest it looks more like an xfwm4 problem than X... if I resize
> > the MPlayer window it sometimes works fine... turning off Composite also
> > completely removes the problem!
> >
> > When I kill xfwm4 with Composite on then the problem goes away
> > completely... Can't get any more detailed then that! (note I'm using 4.1.90)
> 
> I think it's a problem with mplayer because:
> 
> - It doesn't happen with Xine
> - Metacity + xcompmgr + mplayer show the same problem

It's a known issue with the way many apps handle Xv, that Composite
brings out. Xine fixed the problem while X.org 6.8.0 was in
development, Mplayer does the same thing, but has not fixed the
problem.

In short, it's an MPlayer issue ;-)

-Erik

> 
> Cheers,
> Olivier.
> 
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-Erik