So I am having an issue in 16.04 while playing videos in VLC. There seems to be what I would term as screen tearing and just distortion that makes videos difficult to watch. Had the same issue in 15.10 but never bothered to fix it. I’m leaning toward it possibly being a video driver issue. The reaso…

[image] t3kg33k: Video streaming is not the problem. It's videos in VLC. Can you please install SMPlayer (sudo apt install smplayer) and confirm you're not seeing screen tearing while playing videos using that player?

Videos in VLC screen tearing and distortion

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wolfman 24 July 2016 07:56 7

Hi @t3kg33k,

further to the other suggestions, make sure you run a full system update as there are several new packages available!: