Ssr: Screen Tearing Issue in Linux Mint

[shahmoeen]

Thank you so much for such a great software for linux. I first used this in linux mint 18.1 and found that recorded video has lot of screen tearing. than I switch to ubuntu mate, and found no issue in that distro.

Today I tried ssr again with linux mint 18.3 and found same screen tearing problem. I did a search on internet and found lot of guys are facing same problem. Here is a video recorded with ssr in linux mint, you can check screen tearing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_98tL9Qw9jw

[MaartenBaert]

This problem exists with all window managers based on Mutter (the GNOME 3 window manager) including Cinnamon. It is the result of a synchronization problem between the X server and the window manager, this is not something I can fix. OpenGL recording is not affected by this though.

[gabrielfern]

If you use intel hd graphics as video card, this problem happens, on linux mint, this seems to be from the "xserver-xorg-video-intel" package wich from newer intel processors is unnecessary, i uninstalled it and now works perfectly

[MaartenBaert]

I had never heard of that. Good to know!

[shahmoeen]

@MaartenBaert Thank you. So I will face this issue in ubuntu 18.04 (because that will use GNOME)

@gabrielfern Thank you for your reply, I will try your solution.

[gabrielfern]

tell us if the screen tearing was gone with this @shahmoeen , when i was searching for a solution for this, i found the "xserver-xorg-video-intel" as the problem, in a forum that i can't remember and in other site as a tip for perfomance improvements (on hd graphics) afaik the "xserver-xorg-video-intel" is for backward compatibility, you can always install it back if you had problems.

[kn00tcn]

i am wondering if disabling compositing in cinnamon (mint) stops the tearing

[pangeasi]

removing the "xserver-xorg-video-intel" package solved the problem, thanks @gabrielfern

[itronics]

I can also confirm the xserver-xorg-video-intel was source of the problem in my case.
Linux Mint 19.1 on E7450 laptoop with Intel HD GRaphics 5500.