HI Brian, I'll send two replies - one on the sync issue, the other on your questions about DVB. On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > What is a "tear"? Is that the effect where you see part of one frame > and part of another at the same time, most noticible with panning > motions? Yep. The pan shows it up as vertical lines get "broken" at the join point. > What is judder, exactly? Without locked sync some frames get displayed for more time than they should, some for less time than they should. So smooth motion becomes not so smooth. Scrolling titles show the effect - instead of scrolling smoothly they jerk faster and slower. > Now that would be really nice! This whole topic of VSYNC access > sounds very much similar to what another user (Billy Biggs) is trying > to accomplish. Maybe the archives could be useful. I'll check the archives. I did write to Billy also so I expect he'll be on this thread before too long. > That I don't know but I am really interested in what you find out or > even better what you can do with Mplayer to make the quality even > better by syncing its frame display to the VSYNC on the video card. > Keep us posted please. Will do, Steve