[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] reduce flashing on resize with VDPAU

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 08:35:07AM +0100, Dan Oscarsson wrote:
> Using 4 output surfaces I get, after a while, frames being display
> nearly 2 vsyncs late (in my case running at 23,976hz, 70-80 ms).
> Using 3 surfaces it works like my patch (which is expected as it is more
> or less done in the same way), giving a delay up to about 40 ms.

4 surfaces are necessary for deinterlacing. Another reason to allow
adjusting the number of surfaces.

> Well, I prefer to not have any frame dropping and audio in sync.
> Currently, if I have no frame dropping, I can easily get audio out of
> sync by 100-200 ms or even more which makes the movie unwatchable.
> The way mplayer syncs video to audio does not work well when fps is same
> as vsyncs per second.

Well, you could try -speed 0.99 it might be that it does not work well
because MPlayer either plays faster than  24 fps or your display is
slower than that.