On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 03:09:29PM +0200, Thomas Hilber wrote: > 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 some time ago I accidentally stumbled across these options in my outdated 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. > Ok. Sounds like it.. although "xineliboutput.Modeline" sounds a bit like it only wants to change to one specific modeline.. > > 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. > Thanks. I knew new xservers are able to change resolution/modeline on the fly nowadays.. but didn't remember it was XRandR extension doing it :) -- Pasi _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
