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For what it's worth, I might be a more-obsessive-than-average user, but it kills me when I see tearing and flickering in X11 windows. "Every frame is perfect" is a super visible change :)

Btw, am I right that tearing in a video in VLC is an X11 interaction, or is that purely a VLC thing that I should expect to keep happening with Wayland support?

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> but it kills me when I see tearing and flickering in X11 windows

Honestly don't think this will ever be solved in the open source world. It rarely even gets solved in the commercial world unless there is an internal design team involved who have enough power to force the dev team to solve these things. Win 10 for example has some silky smooth transitions but then you resize an explorer window and it flickers black.

So many people don't even seem to notice it but for some of us it's nails on a chalkboard.

VLC is notoriously buggy in general. I'd put a lot more stock in how mplayer (or whatever the popular option is these days), xine or even ffplay behave.

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