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<blockquote data-quote="Cinnabuns" data-source="post: 713335" data-attributes="member: 96777">Re: [plugin] &quot;My NetFlix&quot; Plugin with Watch Now SupportI spent a couple hours today playing around with the dynamic refresh rate settings in MP and found that the above may have unintended consequences. The built-in MP video player requires Aero to be enabled in Vista/Win7 when using EVR as the video renderer in order to properly implement VSYNC. If you enable the dynamic refresh rate control (disabled by default) in MP's config, and are using EVR (default option for MP Win7 install), you may get screen tearing issues if you also disable Desktop Composition (Aero).I re-enabled Desktop Composition and my screen tearing problems with the dynamic refresh rate control feature went away. But then, it seems like I also don't have any issues with the plugin losing focus. Note that the VSYNC issue only applies to the built-in MP video player so it's not directly related to this plugin, but I thought I'd post in here so people are aware of the caveats with disabling Desktop Composition.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cinnabuns, post: 713335, member: 96777"] [b]Re: [plugin] "My NetFlix" Plugin with Watch Now Support[/b] I spent a couple hours today playing around with the dynamic refresh rate settings in MP and found that the above may have unintended consequences. The built-in MP video player requires Aero to be enabled in Vista/Win7 when using EVR as the video renderer in order to properly implement VSYNC. If you enable the dynamic refresh rate control (disabled by default) in MP's config, and are using EVR (default option for MP Win7 install), you may get screen tearing issues if you also disable Desktop Composition (Aero). I re-enabled Desktop Composition and my screen tearing problems with the dynamic refresh rate control feature went away. But then, it seems like I also don't have any issues with the plugin losing focus. Note that the VSYNC issue only applies to the built-in MP video player so it's not directly related to this plugin, but I thought I'd post in here so people are aware of the caveats with disabling Desktop Composition. [/QUOTE]

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