OpenGL.GLX.SGI.video_sync

OpenGL extension SGI.video_sync

This module customises the behaviour of the OpenGL.raw.GLX.SGI.video_sync to provide a more Python-friendly API

Overview (from the spec)

This extension provides a means for synchronization with the video frame rate of a monitor. (In the case of an interlaced monitor, this is typically the rate of displaying both the even and odd fields of a frame.) The kernel maintains a video sync counter for each physical hardware pipe in a system; the counter is incremented upon the completion of the display of each full frame of video data. An OpenGL context always corresponds to a pipe. When an OpenGL process has a current context, it can put itself to sleep until the counter of that pipe reaches a desired value. The process can also query the value of the counter.

The counter runs as long as the graphics subsystem is running; it is initialized via the /usr/gfx/gfxinit command. However, a process can query or sleep on the counter only when a direct context is current. Each of the procedures described below will fail and return an error code if the current context is not a direct one.

The counter is an unsigned 32-bit integer.

The official definition of this extension is available here: http://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/SGI/video_sync.txt