2015-05-05, 09:48
Hello to everybody,
I purchased a core i5 4th generation NUC a while ago. I am very satisfied with the NUC, but I have some tearing problems during the playback with Kodi.
My configuration is the following:
- Kodi 14.2 installed on top of a standard Ubuntu 14.10 installation (kernel 3.16)
- Updated Intel graphics drivers 1.5.1 through the Intel Graphics Installer
- Match refresh rate enabled in Kodi -> System -> Playback
Tearing is always present even if I disable the match refrash rate option, or if I manually change the graphics refresh rate through xrandr -r .
Someone has this problem? I have seen on some posts that a possible solution is to enable the "TearFree" option in xorg.conf, but my Ubuntu installation does not ship with a xorg.conf file (and I don't know how to create a correct one). Moreover, I see in this other thread http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=165707 that fritsch is against this solution due to the introduction of triple buffering.
Any suggestion would be appreciated. I really would like to keep the Ubuntu + Kodi configuration because the NUC is the only PC that I have at home, so I need it for other tasks beside the video playing.
I purchased a core i5 4th generation NUC a while ago. I am very satisfied with the NUC, but I have some tearing problems during the playback with Kodi.
My configuration is the following:
- Kodi 14.2 installed on top of a standard Ubuntu 14.10 installation (kernel 3.16)
- Updated Intel graphics drivers 1.5.1 through the Intel Graphics Installer
- Match refresh rate enabled in Kodi -> System -> Playback
Tearing is always present even if I disable the match refrash rate option, or if I manually change the graphics refresh rate through xrandr -r .
Someone has this problem? I have seen on some posts that a possible solution is to enable the "TearFree" option in xorg.conf, but my Ubuntu installation does not ship with a xorg.conf file (and I don't know how to create a correct one). Moreover, I see in this other thread http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=165707 that fritsch is against this solution due to the introduction of triple buffering.
Any suggestion would be appreciated. I really would like to keep the Ubuntu + Kodi configuration because the NUC is the only PC that I have at home, so I need it for other tasks beside the video playing.