[MPlayer-cygwin] Change priority to realtime in windows

[Stefan Gürtler]

> Sascha Sommer writes:
> > On Tuesday 05 October 2004 18:13, Joseph Miller wrote:
> > >
> > > Here is the code in the attached file. I neglected to make a patch
thus far
> > > as I'm not very good at that, but I will try to make one and send it
out in
> > > the next few days.
> >
> > I don't know what the others are thinking about this, but imho it is a
bit of
> > overkill. We don't need the ones <= normal. I guess a simple one that
gives
> > a higher priority than normal and is available on win98 is enough.
>
> I disagree.  Priorities below normal are probably useless, but might
> still be nice to play around with, priorities above normal may all
> make sense on different systems, most people don't have Windows 98
> anymore.
>
> Then again, all of this seems to be available through the start
> utility, but MPlayer already has so many features that this will
> hardly hurt.
>
> Diego
>
Can't the thread priority be set for mencoder, too? I thing i saw a comment
that mentioned mencoder.c, too. In this case, providing lower priorities is
very usefull for encoding in the background while working on the system.
Why using mencoder to encode in Windows when there are great editing and
encoding tools like e.g. VirtualDub? Because mencoder is the one application
to encode using the x264 codec.

Stefan