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Hello folks, I've got a small SDL2-based program which renders YUV video at up to 30 frames per second, which is working smoothly. I am now trying to render some text info over the video, like frame number or video quality figures (PSNR or whatever). I've followed the Lazy Foo production tutorial on TTF (http://lazyfoo.net/SDL_tutorials/lesson07/) and I've managed to make it work, but the text is blinking and seem it can't keep up with the video. I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong or is just a limitation. The skeleton of the code is the following: Code: // the renderer if (NULL == (renderer = SDL_CreateRenderer(window, -1, SDL_RENDERER_PRESENTVSYNC|SDL_RENDERER_ACCELERATED))) error(ESDL, "Failed to create renderer: %s\n", SDL_GetError()); // the video if (NULL == (video = SDL_CreateTexture(renderer, SDL_PIXELFORMAT_IYUV, SDL_TEXTUREACCESS_STREAMING, p->width, p->height))) error(ESDL, "Failed to create texture: %s\n", SDL_GetError()); // the text surface = TTF_RenderText_Solid(font, "blended", color); text = SDL_CreateTextureFromSurface(renderer, surface); for ( frame = 0; frame <= last_frame; frame++) { ... if (display_info) { // render text SDL_RenderCopy(renderer, text, NULL, &text_rect); SDL_RenderPresent(renderer); } ... // render video SDL_RenderCopy(renderer, video, NULL, &video_rect); SDL_RenderPresent(renderer); ... }
Any suggestions? Thanks

Indeed. This solved the blinking Code: ... // render video SDL_RenderCopy(renderer, video, NULL, &video_rect); if (display_info) { // render text SDL_RenderCopy(renderer, text, NULL, &text_rect); } SDL_RenderPresent(renderer);
Thanks Rang