Re: video flicker

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From: Florian Wolpert
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 13:34

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rabjab@golem.ucsd.edu (Jeff Bytof) writes:
: I wrote a short program to send image files to the
: screen in real time for animation purposes.  It works great except
: there is some flickering of the image.  Perhaps not being synched with
: the natural refresh rate of the screen is causing the flickering.
: Is there a register I should poll for the event of screen refresh?

Yes, this would be of interest for me too. Is there something like
a vsync-call (or is this a general problem of no-realtime-
no-singletask-unix) ?

Flo.
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