Bug#635710: Video playback with vdpau creates black flickering on the whole screen

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2011-07-28 12:01, Yuri D'Elia wrote:
> Since a couple of versions (I noticed the issue first coming up two months
> ago), playing any video using vdpau accelleration causes the screen to flicker:
...
> I can replicate this issue only when using vdpau. I was able to reproduce it
> using two different Quadro cards (one listed here), and an ION card, on two
> different kernel/xorg versions showing the same exact problem.

Please try the 280.11 driver from experimental. Upstream changelog
recently mentioned several fixes concerning vdpau.

If this does not fix the problem, please report this problem directly to
nvidia, see their instructions:
    http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=46678
Please post a note with a forum URL to this Debian bug report, so that
we may follow progress.

Andreas