On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:51:13PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > A bit off topic.. Does any of the video players for Linux switch to a > resolution/modeline with a different refresh rate when watching a movie to > get perfect synchronization and no tearing?
some time ago I accidentally stumbled across these options in my outdated xineliboutput version: xineliboutput.VideoModeSwitching = 1 xineliboutput.Modeline = maybe these are intended for this purpose? I didn't care yet. > An example.. your desktop might be at 70 hz refresh rate in normal use (ok, > maybe it's 60 hz nowadays with LCD displays), and when you start watching > PAL TV it would be better to have your display at 50 hz or 100 hz to get > perfect output.. and then, when you start seeing a 24 fps movie, it would be > best to have your display in 72 hz mode (3*24).. etc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XRandR is what you are looking for. At least when talking about Xservers with that capability. Don't know how well it's supported by today's VDR output plugins. _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
