AMD Posts Updated Mesa Patches For Variable Refresh Rate (FreeSync / Adaptive-Sync)

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Freesync/Adaptive sync is leveraged for video playback on Windows 10 with the built in video playback app and it works quite well. For example, if I play a 23.976fps video, my monitor will refresh at 47,952hz seamlessly when the video is in fullscreen. There's no traditional modeswitching, no flicker or delay when entering fullscreen. Sadly, it does not seem to work with any decent third party video player. Would be cool if this feature could come to the open source world and be supported by software such as mpv, VLC, etc...

Yeah I wish the same thing.

Problem is currently most of these video players do tear if you don't use a compositor... and freesync apparently is going to be disabled on compositors...
Likely video players are going to need to get low level and use the right protocols to get tear free and freesync.