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Re: Sync to Android frame rate

From rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.arch.embedded
Subject Re: Sync to Android frame rate
Date 2017-05-19 13:47 -0400
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On 5/19/2017 1:28 PM, Theo Markettos wrote:
> rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I know nothing about Android, but it seems to me there should be a
>> graphics library that provides this sort of functionality.  I would
>> think your code would provide a buffer of data to be presented to the
>> screen and a graphics call would hand it to the graphic processor which
>> in turn copies that buffer in a highly synchronized manner.
>
> There is, it's called SurfaceFlinger.
> Though you might want to use higher levels of the graphics stack because you
> may need further layers of compositing (eg controls on top of the image):
> https://source.android.com/devices/graphics/architecture

Looks right, but complicated.  I didn't see anything that would provide 
the synchronization the OP is looking for but I can't believe it 
wouldn't be there.  That would be required for glitch-less display 
updates which we know happens.

-- 

Rick C

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Sync to Android frame rate John Speth <johnspeth@yahoo.com> - 2017-05-17 17:23 -0700
  Re: Sync to Android frame rate John Speth <johnspeth@yahoo.com> - 2017-05-18 11:59 -0700
    Re: Sync to Android frame rate rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-05-18 21:53 -0400
      Re: Sync to Android frame rate Theo Markettos <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2017-05-19 18:28 +0100
        Re: Sync to Android frame rate rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-05-19 13:47 -0400
        Re: Sync to Android frame rate John Speth <johnspeth@yahoo.com> - 2017-05-19 12:47 -0700
    Re: Sync to Android frame rate John Speth <johnspeth@yahoo.com> - 2017-05-19 12:51 -0700
      Re: Sync to Android frame rate Theo Markettos <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2017-05-22 11:00 +0100
        Re: Sync to Android frame rate John Speth <johnspeth@yahoo.com> - 2017-05-22 09:24 -0700
          Re: Sync to Android frame rate Theo Markettos <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2017-05-22 22:30 +0100

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