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some time ago I accidentally stumbled across these options in my outdated xineliboutput version: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.