Comment 131 for bug 278318

@ William Uther
Just use overlay if possible. I guess most distributions have patches for it, at least Ubuntu.

According to this mailing list entry http://<email address hidden>/msg04078.html posted before the Intel devs are fully aware that textured video does tear and it looks like that it does on every Intel card. They were planning to fix this with DRI2 but the changes doesn't make it in time.
Furthermore it was no problem for them to disable and remove the non tearing output - overlay - a year ago or something like that.

I guess either Intel devs doesn't watch videos with their pcs, have another graphic card, always use patched drivers or live in the future/have a time machine :D .

I mean if this situation appears for some weeks or a month, nobody would care but you wouldn't salvage your only car if your new one arrives in over a year.

Maybe it is only me but I don't get it.