When using Aiglx with compiz, playing a video in mplayer will cause a lot of flickers. Compiz developers created a patch to make use compiz for the video output or to fall back to xv if compiz is not present. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install compiz with aiglx 2. Play a video with mplayer 3.
Created attachment 139259 [details, diff] The actual patch to mplayer
Created attachment 139260 [details, diff] The patch to the ebuild
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 196316 ***