RandR 1.2 output properties and options

[Glynn Clements]

Nicolas Mailhot wrote:

> > > > Certainly synchronous (mode changes are rare so UI/WM hopefully won't
> > > > be starved-except if application starts to do DoS with randr calls),
> > > 
> > > A plastic  disc (ie DVD) can contain several chained short sequences all
> > > using different resolutions and scales (typically : logo tunnel at the
> > > start of a film). In an ideal world media players should be capable of
> > > switching modes accordingly on the fly
> > 
> > Err .. no, because the time needed by CRTs to resync is long (way more
> > than one second). The media player should instead scale the video (using
> > Xv or something like that) accordingly.
> 
> Who cares about CRTs anymore:)

Anyone with limited amounts of money.

When I bought my current CRT monitor (22", 1920x1440 at 75Hz) around a
year ago, LCD displays with the same specification cost 3-4 times as
much.

FWIW, this monitor can easily take 5 seconds to resync after a mode
change.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>