[MPlayer-cygwin] Change priority to realtime in windows

[Joey Parrish]

On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 01:02:54PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> Joseph Miller writes:
> > 
> > On Sunday 26 September 2004 6:28 pm, Daniel Johansson wrote:
> > > Hi, how to I change so that mplayer gets realtime priority by windows every
> > > time I start a movie? I got some problems with laggy movies but it works
> > > fine as soon as I change the priority to realtime. Is there any way to tell
> > > mplayer to always use realtime as priority, if so how?
> > 
> > SetThreadPriority in winbase.h ought to help you out some.
> > http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dllproc/base/setthreadpriority.asp
> 
> Any volunteers to implement something like this as an option?  It has
> been requested many many times..

#ifdef WIN32
# include <windows.h>
#endif
  [...]
#ifdef WIN32
  SetThreadPriority(GetCurrentProcess(), THREAD_PRIORITY_TIME_CRITICAL);
#endif

IMHO, "time critical" is helpful, but not so aggressive that it even
needs to be optional.  I do this in my packages.  With this priority,
MPlayer gets preference over other normal apps, but will still defer CPU
time to critical OS tasks.

However, I think "real time" priority is bad, because it means as soon
as I try to play an extremely high bitrate file that my CPU just can't
handle, MPlayer eats up 100% CPU and gets priority over a lot of basic
windows components.  I think this is a bad idea always.

--Joey

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