[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] vo-control method suggestion

[Attila Kinali]

On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 12:10:05 -0500
D Richard Felker III <dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote:

> out of curiosity, is there any situation in which disabling framedrop
> is desirable? it seems like whenever framedrop is disabled, there's
> always the possibility that you could lose a/v sync quite badly, even
> on fast machines, if something unexpected stalls the process
> momentarily.

Yes there is. It may sound strange. but if you have just some framedrops
(ie less than 1%) you may go better with -noframedrop. The movie will be more
smooth as no frames are droppend and because the cpu is just a little bit too
slow mplayer is still able to correct the A/V sync.

I dont know it in exact numbers (never measured it), but i had the impression
that mplayer uses a little bit less cpu with -noframedrop than with the default.
(can also be just my imagination)

			Attila Kinali

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