Re: dynamic-hz

[Jan Engelhardt]

>> Ugh, because mplayer stupidly does disk i/o and AV playback and GUI in
>> the same thread.  Insert Xine plug.

There has been a real flame war on using threads in mplayer -- it ended in 
a fork into mplayer-xp. Surprisingly, the problem is not mplayer. Using the 
OSS kernel modules instead of ALSA, audio may drop, but it does not _skip_ it.

> This is not a problem as long as all of them can be done totally async.  As
> soon as anything blocks, then there's an issue.

Is there a way i can prioritize mplayer to get disk i/o done first?



Jan Engelhardt
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