Just wanna share this. When I play a video file in any player (SMPlayer, mpv, VLC) the video always show some tearing, either full screen or not. Although the tearing was not so bad, it's quite noticeable and I was wondering whether it can still be lessened or removed. Most suggestions I read say to adjust v-sync, which I thought was not available.

V-sync is in system settings>display>compositor. It's set at automatic as default. I experimented with "only when cheap" and "full screen repaint" and I got better video replay with either of the latter: very minor and rare instance of video tearing. You get a warning about performance being affected, but so far I have yet to notice any "bad" performance effect after changing the v-sync setting.

output of vainfo

libva info: VA-API version 0.37.0

libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0

libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/dri/i965_drv_video.so

libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1

vaInitialize failed with error code -1 (unknown libva error),exit

This is needed for hardware accelated video decoding - ask demm to pack it for KaOS.

Hi demm, as bvbfan suggested would you kindly pack the mentioned intel driver? it seems to be needed to improve playback performance of videos.

Read what this distro is and what it is not:

One user thinking a missing package might solve an issue for them does not mean it right away gets added to the repo, that is why there is:

and:

Once it is proven useful for more, then it will be considered for adding to the repos.

You're right, of course. Thanks for clarifying.

Checked with quite a few intel cards, this driver will be useful for many, added to the repo, please check if this fixes your issue so it can move to all users asap. No need to activate the build repo, it is safe to install with:

http://kaosx.tk/repo/build/libva-intel-driver-1.5.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz