[MPlayer-dev-eng] Adding threaded functionality to mplayer NODAEMON

[Jan Knutar]

On Tuesday 21 September 2004 16:13, Ed Wildgoose wrote:

> Why?  What happened?

Instead of having the tearing in random places, it was more or less in the
same place on teh screen all the time :)
 
>  Before, using RTC I would have a few ms 
> jitter either side (which was good, but not perfect and was sometimes 
> visible as a frame skip).

How would using the retrace interrupt as time base, which would be 60 - 70 hz
or something, be more accurate than the RTC interrupt running at 1024zh,
which mplayer does now?

> Since this appears to be the main synchronisation point of mplayer, this 
> idea appears to be worth a little mulling over?

I'm not sure how this is supposed to help mplayer. Besides, doesn't the X
server steal the interrupt these days for tear-free Xv and GL?