Please expose black frame insertion option in Android menus
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Description
More and more phones have 120Hz-capable screens now. RetroArch supports black frame insertion on Android, but the user has to manually edit retroarch.cfg (video_black_frame_insertion = "1"). And maybe that setting will be reverted if you save settings from the GUI?
I understand that some LCD screens don't like BFI; see issue #13866. But there, both screens at issue were 60Hz only and BFI is useless then.
Probably most/all 120Hz-capable OLED screens work fine with BFI, so it would be nice to have an easy way to enable it. You could always show a first-time warning and recommend/force it only be used with 100Hz+ refresh rate.
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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating the Android menu handling and the code that reads or writes the video_black_frame_insertion setting in retroarch.cfg. The work is done when Android users can enable the option through the GUI without it being lost when settings are saved, with the proposed refresh-rate warning behavior addressed.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- android, c
- Domain
- mobile
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100