Chris Martin wrote:
...
The live Tv quality on the Pundit-R is more than acceptable, providing
bob deinterlacing is used. Unfortunately using bob deinterlacing
casues the picture to get jittery and flickery with time, to the point
that after about 5 minutes it is unwatchable. Quickly pausing and
unpausing the picture resolves the problem but only for 5 minutes at

This is what I call a 'straddle' event. If there is no retrace timing for the card, the frame buffer is updated at equal frame intervals unaware of when the actual retraces will occur. If the update and retrace are at almost the exact same time, the update could happen just before or just after the retrace deadline. This causes rapid jitter until they go out of sync again (pause would accomplish this). Ironically, the more accurate the timing, the longer these events last.

which point the flickeryness returns.  I've been advised by somebody
on the mailing list to use Open GL as this should provice VSync
support which will resolve the problem.  At the time I thought I might
not have open gl support, however the open gl picture transitions in
myth gallery worked fine so maybe I do.

Both OpenGL and DRM methods will get the retrace timing and can avoid this problem.

--  bjm

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