pods::...eoInfo(3pm)

💖 NAME 💖

SDL::VideoInfo — Video Target Information ✨

Oh and quick heads up bestie, this page lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of the manual (3pm), so you're in the right place 🫶

🌸 CATEGORY 🌸

Core, Video, Structure

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⭐ SYNOPSIS ⭐

my $video_info = SDL::Video::get_video_info();

okay so listen — VideoInfo is only accessible through SDL::Video::get_video_info. That's the one and only door in 🔑. This module literally just hands you getters for the struct SDL_VideoInfo, and that's it, that's the whole vibe.

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

This object is a read-only structure (no cap, you cannot write to it, do not try) and it's returned by SDL::Video::get_video_info.

It's giving ✨informant✨ — here's what it tells you about:

• the best available mode, if you called it before SDL::Video::set_video_mode, or
• the current video mode, if you called it after SDL::Video::set_video_mode.

Depending on where you are in your setup, the tea is different 💅

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🎀 METHODS 🎀

💜 hw_available

$video_info->hw_available() # 1 if Hardware Accelerated Surfaces available

Is it possible to create hardware surfaces? 🤔 Returns 1 if hardware accelerated surfaces are available.

💜 wm_available

$video_info->wm_available() # 1 if Window Manager available

Is there a window manager available? 🪟 Returns 1 if a window manager is available.

💜 blit_hw

$video_info->blit_hw()

Are hardware to hardware blits accelerated? ⚡

💜 blit_hw_CC

$video_info->blit_hw_CC()

Are hardware to hardware colorkey blits accelerated? 🎨

💜 blit_hw_A

$video_info->blit_hw_A()

Are hardware to hardware alpha blits accelerated? 🌈

💜 blit_sw

$video_info->blit_sw()

Are software to hardware blits accelerated? 🔥

💜 blit_sw_CC

$video_info->blit_sw_CC()

Are software to hardware colorkey blits accelerated? 🎨

💜 blit_sw_A

$video_info->blit_sw_A()

Are software to hardware alpha blits accelerated? 🌈

💜 blit_fill

$video_info->blit_fill()

Are color fills accelerated? 🖌️

💜 video_mem

my $video_mem = $video_info->video_mem();

Total amount of video memory in Kilobytes 📼

bestie, important: only access this if hw_available == 1 🚨 otherwise it's just 0 and you're reading nothing. iykyk.

💜 vfmt

my $vd_pixel_format = $video_info->vfmt();

The SDL::PixelFormat of the video device 🖼️

💜 current_w, current_h

$video_info->current_w();
$video_info->current_h();

Width and height of the current video mode 📐 — or, if SDL_GetVideoInfo was called before SDL::Video::set_video_mode, the width and height of the desktop mode instead. (available since SDL 1.2.10 🗓️)

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🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

• SDL::Video
• SDL::PixelFormat

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

See "AUTHORS" in SDL. 🫡

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and that's the whole page, bestie 💅 go forth and query your video info responsibly 🧚💖

sign-off szn 🎀 — this glam little number is from perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-08-19, filed under pods::...eoInfo(3pm). slay. ✨