[MPlayer-users] Question about -vo gl and nVidia

[Jonathan Rogers]

Axel Liljencrantz wrote:
> BTW, why is it impossible (or at least hard) to do update on vsync
> with the xv hardware? Isn't there a XSync command in X that can be
> used? And if it's not good enough somehow, doesn't graphics hardware
> generate interrupts on VSync which could be caught and used?

Frames are synced with vertical refresh in at least some configurations. 
I'm also using the proprietary Nvidia driver and -vo xv works great; 
it's the lowest CPU usage and there's no tearing.

Jonathan Rogers