[fajung]

hello, I'm new with Kodi, I just installed 3 days ago and I can't get rid of the video tearing, I check & uncheck every setting on Settings> Kodi > Video > aceletation, but can't make the tearing go away. I don't have tearing in any other way, SMPlayer, VLC, or even in Firefox fullscreen videos looks good, no tearing in xfce4 moving windows, just in kodi.
if I start a session with kodi's, the same happens, I disabled compisotor from xorg.conf as in a wiki suggested but same deal...

here is my log, started kodi, played testing video, tweaking some option and closing it

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Kodi version: 16.1-2
Skin: Default || Amber

Micro: AMD Phenom II X4
RAM: 4GB
Video card Nvidia GeForce 9600 GT ( DVI to HDMI wire on my 1080p TV)
Video Driver: nvidia 340.96
Audio SPDIF

OS: Linux Archlinux 4.6.2-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jun 8 08:40:59 CEST 2016 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Display manager: LightDM
Desktop: xfce4 || Kodi

xfwm4 -V
This is xfwm4 version 4.12.3 (revision 7fdcb53) for Xfce 4.12
Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
Compiled against GTK+-2.24.30, using GTK+-2.24.30.

Build configuration and supported features:
- Startup notification support: Yes
- XSync support: Yes
- Render support: Yes
- Xrandr support: Yes
- Embedded compositor: Yes
- KDE systray proxy (deprecated): No

[black_eagle]

Are you running that in a VM

21:37:18 T:140602884716608 NOTICE: GL_VENDOR = VMware, Inc.
21:37:18 T:140602884716608 NOTICE: GL_RENDERER = Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.8, 128 bits)
21:37:18 T:140602884716608 NOTICE: GL_VERSION = 3.0 Mesa 11.2.2

I have the same card as you, in fact my main setup is pretty much exactly as yours, but I'm using the nVidia driver and get no tearing at all.

[fajung]

no, I didn't installed any VM yet, I'm setting up the system

$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] RS780 Host Bridge
00:02.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (ext gfx port 0)
00:0a.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] RS780/RS880 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 5)
00:11.0 SATA controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 SATA Controller [IDE mode]
00:12.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:12.1 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0 USB OHCI1 Controller
00:12.2 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller
00:13.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:13.1 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0 USB OHCI1 Controller
00:13.2 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller
00:14.0 SMBus: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 3a)
00:14.1 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 IDE Controller
00:14.2 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 LPC host controller
00:14.4 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
00:14.5 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI2 Controller
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 10h Processor HyperTransport Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 10h Processor Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 10h Processor DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 10h Processor Miscellaneous Control
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 10h Processor Link Control
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G94 [GeForce 9600 GT] (rev a1)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 02)
03:06.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR5416 Wireless Network Adapter [AR5008 802.11(a)bgn] (rev 01)
03:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)

$ sudo lshw -C video
[sudo] password for fajung:
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: G94 [GeForce 9600 GT]
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: a1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
resources: irq:27 memory:fa000000-faffffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff memory:f8000000-f9ffffff ioport:ef00(size=128) memory:c0000-dffff

maybe when I installed xorg it could installed some dependencies like some "x86-xxxx" or "input-...." related to vMWare ?
I did a search in pamac vmware, and from that result list , nothing is marked as installed, maybe some mesa or .....


kodi it isn't fullscreen in that screencapture just to show that it is not VM

EDIT:
I had mesa-libgl, so I after a check on ArchWiki and installed nvidia-340xx-libgl, remove mesa-libgl, in the kodi info now say NVIDIA, and my tearing test video:


looks good no more tearing, at least for now.

thank 4 the help