Comment 10 for bug 207184

Okay thanks, that pinpoints what patch caused the problem, to the overlay patch. Unfortunately, that one is necessary to avoid some even worse bugs on some people's hardware, so we cannot easily drop it. Maybe in the future we'll have some better solutions, but meanwhile I hope the workarounds (no-xv, TexturedVideo, etc.) give you some alternative options.

The good news is that there is a *lot* of work going on upstream in this area, and I expect once Intrepid opens and we can pull in the newest X stuff in a couple months we'll have some new approaches to solving this. For now, I'll move this over to a wishlist since I think there isn't much we can do (other than forcing one of the workarounds - which as you noted are not that great either.)