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Using Ubuntu 11.04 Natty, disabling OpenGL solves this problem, but then my little weather guy looses his transparency.
Is there any way to correct this without disabling OpenGL or a way to retain transparency?

Seriously, this is not a riddle solving forum. You could care to spell your problem entirely.

I thought a picture was worth 1000 words eh?

The problem I'm having is pretty clear in the picture, there is some sort of tearing where the overlapped video is.
The video like, restarts from the top, so the bottom portion is missing. When I turned off OpenGL in compiz it solved the tearing issue, but my little weather 'widget' lost is transparent background and because a huge ugly black box.

You need a compositing manager if you want transparent applications. And VLC should probably use XVideo rather than OpenGL in any case.

Unfortunately, this smells a lot like a display driver bug.

Would changing the output that VLC uses affect anything?
How would I do that in VLCj?
How do I enable GPU decoding in VLCj?
Right now I am running an ATI card under natty, I can try switching to an nVidia card to see what happens.

Thanks so much

I don't know vlcj.