[MPlayer-cygwin] [PATCH] automatic high-priority

[Alexander Turcic]

High priority is in general a bad thing because it makes your OS
inresponsive. If you want to give MPlayer more timeslices of your CPU to
avoid video skips etc, don't go higher than "abovenormal" with your
settings.

-----Original Message-----
From: Rune Petersen
Sent: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 17:49:15 +0200
To: Win32/CygWin porting <mplayer-cygwin at mplayerhq.hu>
Subject: [PATCH] automatic high-priority

Hi,
In by setup I don't see a need for this so I have to ask..

Why/When is this a good idea?

and why is it on by default?

In theory it's the CPU hogs you have to lower priority for.
But if you want why not make it more general enabling other priorities 
than "high"
this could also be useful for mencoder

Rune Petersen

Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> Hi,
> this is a patch that gives mplayer automatically "high" priority on
> windows. Can be disabled with the -nopriority option. The high priority
> still allows to change to a different task if mplayer hangs, although
> you'll have to wait _very_ long :-(.
> Worked for me on WinXP and Win98SE.
> Please test.
> 
> Greetings,
> Reimar Döffinger

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