2014-02-12, 21:37
I did an update of my Ubuntu 12.04 system recently and now when I play any video it flickers to black on what looks like every second frame. I tried turning the tearing on/off in the Catalyst driver manager, but it made no difference. Changing the sync to black setting in XBMC, doesn't make a difference. This used to work only a few days ago.
The behaviour in more detail: Start XBMC with VAAPI on, menus don't flicker. Start playing any video (HD or SD) flickers starts. Stop video because my brain is bleeding. Now menu flickers as well, on every screen refresh and mouse move. Turn off VAAPI, restart XBMC, then everything works fine. Of course no hardware acceleration, so no smooth full HD playback.
Restart X, and the PC made no difference.
I have Catalyst "driver package version" 9.012-1212...". My hardware is The hardware is an AMD E350 with Radeon APU.
Debug log of playing back video with flickering.
Will try update drivers to Ubuntu's "beta" and see if it helps.
The behaviour in more detail: Start XBMC with VAAPI on, menus don't flicker. Start playing any video (HD or SD) flickers starts. Stop video because my brain is bleeding. Now menu flickers as well, on every screen refresh and mouse move. Turn off VAAPI, restart XBMC, then everything works fine. Of course no hardware acceleration, so no smooth full HD playback.
Restart X, and the PC made no difference.
I have Catalyst "driver package version" 9.012-1212...". My hardware is The hardware is an AMD E350 with Radeon APU.
Debug log of playing back video with flickering.
Will try update drivers to Ubuntu's "beta" and see if it helps.