On Tuesday 15 February 2005 02:44 pm, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 14:35 -0500, Cory Papenfuss wrote:
> >   Isn't that what VSYNC is supposed to be for?
>
> Exactly.  The G400 (probably others) is able to interrupt on the vsync
> pulse allowing the driver and software above it to know when the vsync
> has happened and thus when to load the next frame into video memory
> (frame flip).
>
> But AFAIK, X11 does not support vsyncing.  There is no way for an X11
> application to know when the vsync pulse has hit so it can't really know
> when to frame flip.
>
> Also the video hardware has to be able to encode to TV-Out in an
> interlaced overscanned mode.  I have only seen the G400 able to do this
> properly with DirectFB's help.  matroxset and X11 and the framebuffer
> don't do it properly.

Guess I'll have to remove the vsync code from the Xv/XvMC output at well.

Isaac
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