[MPlayer-users] Tearing problems - waiting for vsync doesn't work with vo_xv

[The Wanderer]

Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:

> On Sunday, 15 June 2008 at 15:51, Haakon Riiser wrote:
> 
>> I would like to do some regression testing on this one, but svn
>> doesn't work like I expected.  I thought I could get an old version
>> of mplayer by doing
>> 
>>   svn up -r<revno>
>> 
>> in the mplayer checkout directory.  It does work for the files that
>> are in the mplayer repository, but all external repositories are
>> not touched.  E.g., I don't get the corresponding version of
>> ffmpeg.
>> 
>> How can I tell svn to get me the ffmpeg version that was in place
>> when <revno> was commited?
> 
> You have to check the date and run svn -r {date} in each of the
> external directories.

In other words, there is no way to do that automatically. This is one of
the known limitations of Subversion. It isn't a problem for repositories
which don't use the "externals" feature, but can be very annoying for
ones which do.

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