How To Fix Video Tearing When Using ATI fglrx drivers
Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2010 10:18 amhey guys just a short but sweet tutorial on getting no video tear when using the ati restricted drivers , i tested this in Ultimate Edition 2.8 with 10.12 ATI divers and i get no video tear at all when playing 1080p Videos 
ok first off install your drivers as usual System>Administration>additional drivers or from the AMD website
once they are installed reboot , open up the catalyst control centre and enable vsync refresh always on
once that is done you can close it , go into mplayer or smplayer go to preferences>video and change it to opengl (in my case it was just "gl" using smplayer) now you can load your video with no tear
enjoy
ok first off install your drivers as usual System>Administration>additional drivers or from the AMD website
once they are installed reboot , open up the catalyst control centre and enable vsync refresh always on
once that is done you can close it , go into mplayer or smplayer go to preferences>video and change it to opengl (in my case it was just "gl" using smplayer) now you can load your video with no tear
enjoy