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

[Sascha Sommer]

On Sunday 24 October 2004 19:06, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > 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.
>
> Except for the fact that there is no such process priority in e.g. Windows
> 98. And as to the reason why this is necessary: Play mp3 with mplayer and
> start a (bigger) program. MPlayer will then stutter due to Windows stupid
> scheduler, although it uses only 1% CPU.
>

That is indeed a problem. But imho high priority shouldn't be on by default
on win98. At least for me it gives strange side effects. Abovenormal by 
default should be ok for winxp, though.

Sascha