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- abbreviation television, computing
vertical blanking
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Examples
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So, with the power of Clutter, Cogl and OpenGL, I brought the mid-'90s screensaver to my GNOME desktop: ignore the glitch, it's due to missing vblank and isn't normally visible
Planet GNOME thos 2010
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"Decreases the time an application stalls while waiting for vblank events, but increases latency slightly" (NVIDIA Readme)
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Just when it comes to the Linux DRM code in this next kernel release there is quite a bit of fun with the Intel kernel driver better supporting Embedded DisplayPort and tracepoints for page-flipping and vblank, the ATI Radeon kernel driver gaining R600/700 tiling support/support for reading R600 thermal sensors/R300 through R500 Hyper-Z support, and the Nouveau driver supporting KMS with the GeForce GTX
Phoronix 2010
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So we ask the hardware to generate an interrupt when we enter vblank and then we reclock.
Planet Debian Matthew Garrett 2010
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Except the hardware has an irritating habit of lying - sometimes we get the interrupt a line or two before vblank, sometimes we get it after we've already gone out the other side.
Planet Debian Matthew Garrett 2010
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I took out the sync to vblank in the progress bar, so the progress bar flickers, but loading is faster.
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Some of the problems reported were so bad, I thought for sure there must be another vblank related bug hiding somewhere, causing apps to timeout and hang for a few seconds.
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"Decreases the time an application stalls while waiting for vblank events, but increases latency slightly" (NVIDIA Readme)
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Timing showed that doing so could easily be done within the vblank interval.
Planet GNOME 2008
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This isn't vblank synced, so it may introduce some graphical corruption.
Planet GNOME 2008
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