[vlc-devel] [PATCH 05/21] video_output: rename drop_next_frame to display_next_frame

[Steve Lhomme]

On 2020-09-15 18:03, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> Le tiistaina 15. syyskuuta 2020, 15.36.10 EEST Steve Lhomme a écrit :
>> That's what it really does. It actually forces to render the next frame
>> because we skip the current one.
> 
> AFAICT, what it really does is skip this/the current frame.

That's another way to see it. But in frame by frame mode this flag is 
set and if there is no next frame, nothing is rendered. So it's really 
about what you want to display, rather than what you want to skip.