Video flicker

[linuxnoobie]

It seems when it comes to anything to do with video everything flickers. wwhen i wath a DVD using xine or mplayer i can see the movie but it keeps flickering. when i use the program Cheese for my webcam it also flickers real bad

I have an ATI x1300 pro It is set up correctly. The ATI Catalyst Control Center starts up with no issues and gives me all the info on the card and settings.

I had the visual effects set to Extra but i switch it to normal and got the same results

I also changed to different resolutions and refresh rates but it made no difference

Any ideas would be apprecited

[linuxnoobie]

I added these options to my xorg.conf and no more flicker but the webcam is so delayed even when viewing in cheese. Do i need to add something else to the xorg file?

Option "TexturedVideo" "off"
Screen 0

Here is my xorg file

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
DefaultDepth 24
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "glx"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "TexturedVideo" "off"
Screen 0

[L4Linux]

Compiz some times interferes with OpenGL applications/games (like Blender) and movies, so try disabling it before you play a movie. You can disable it from System->Preferences->Appearance on the Visual Effects tab.

A better way is to install fusion-icon. Fusion-Icon is available in Ubuntu and other distributions' repositories, so it is very easy to install it.

sudo apt-get install fusion-icon

Or you can use Synaptic or Adept package managers.

After it is installed you can find it in Applications->System Tools. When you run it, an icon will appear on the upper system bar on the right side.Select window manager->metacity and the effects are disabled. Select window manager->compiz and it is enabled again.

To have it starting at boot, go to System->Preferences->Sessions click add and in the command field put

fusion-icon --no-start

[linuxnoobie]

I followed through with the directions you wrote but still the same. No more more flicker like i said in the webcam program but it still flikers like heck when watching a DVD movie using xine or mplayer

THis is what i got when i ran this compiz

bryan@ubuntu:~$ compiz
Checking for Xgl: not present.
Detected PCI ID for VGA:
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: not present.
Trying again with indirect rendering:
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: present.
Checking for non power of two support: present.
Checking for Composite extension: present.
Comparing resolution (1024x76 to maximum 3D texture size (4096): Passed.
Checking for Software Rasterizer: Not present.
Checking for nVidia: not present.
Checking for FBConfig: present.
Checking for Xgl: not present.
/usr/bin/compiz.real (video) - Warn: No 8 bit GLX pixmap format, disabling YV12 image format