Quote Originally Posted by blindbox View Post
Sorry for turning this thread into a linux discussion but anyway, I will try your recommendations. I'm currently dual-booting to linux mint. Is that mplayer or mplayer2?

Apart from the non-smooth video, I also have tearing, and these are with the latest drivers (tried everything, tried to force vsync and use opengl, tried to use sudo aticonfig --<stuff> etc). I've checked that Hybrid Crossfire are not working (you can't enable them), so perhaps it's just the drivers not being good enough. I kinda expected 13.4 drivers on linux to be equivalent to a 13.4 driver on windows. That's pretty dumb of me.

Are you on an AMD card? If you don't experience my problems, then maybe my laptop card isn't just well supported on linux. Also, you have to try madVR with smooth motion force enabled. I couldn't watch another video without it again.
It's a svn version from a couple months back. Not sure when the 2.x cutoff was, but I've been using the above for years.

I don't use AMD video cards except in my work mac.

It's still worth letting mplayer deal with it. If there are problems be sure to gather the output and post it so that we can see what it used.

Another trick is not to use "xv" as the backend, there are alternatives. In some contexts I had best success with "-vo gl" which tells mplayer to use OpenGL as a backend instead. xv kinda stinks.