Is there any way to get the monitor's refresh rate in hz using SDL? I assumed it would be in SDL_GetVideoInfo() but it's unfortunately I was wrong. I'm using SDL 1.2.

Thanks in advance.

I'm not sure about 1.2 but in version 1.3 you can call:
[source lang="cpp"]SDL_DisplayMode mode;
SDL_GetDisplayMode(mode_index, &mode);
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Which will give you the SDL_DisplayMode struct containing format, width, height, refresh rate.