Vertical Sync
 

So, I hate "torn video". To those who don't know what that is, it's when a video or game is playing in a certain frequency of frame refreshes that it mismatches your monitor's refresh rate causing bars that tear the video into portions of two different frames (as the screen refreshes from top-down).
So, is there anyway in Winamp to enable vertical sync (or add a command that you can choose the framerate) to prevent this tearing? If not... this needs to be considered. From what I know, AVS is DirectX scripted and therefore should be able to support vertical syncronization (same would apply to OpenGL)?

AVS is software rendered and therefore is also not supported under DirectX nor OpenGL

furthermore
here's the link you want: http://forums.winamp.com/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=85

lol now he'll never come out ;)

The Bin!!! :D

The Crosspost

AVS is DirectX my balls.

Okay, I got that... AVS and DirectX is a no no... no idea where it came from.
Oh well, guess I'll just deal with the tearing...

Why would you get tearing on a monitor?. Weird. Anyway, they'res an option in Winamp someplace to sync the frame rate to the sync rate. Look in preferences, it's there some place.

Maybe that's what you're after?.

There is page flipping for fullscreen (non-overlay mode). That's all that I know of that deals with smoothness. I generally don't get tearing in the AVS, but when I overlay it on my desktop, it's a whole different story.

Look here:

Preferences-->Video-->Synchronize video to screen refresh rate (off by default).

I've had to use this on an LCD before, because the monitor was too fast.

This is video, not AVS. AVS is still tearing on my desktop even with this option on.

Did you try what I suggested in your other post?

In AVS it's called wait for retrace.

edit: bleh, this is why crossposting sucks!

Also enabled... I still get overlay tearing.

Ah, you're using overlay mode.

Yeah, it only avoids tearing in the AVS window (or in fullscreen).