[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Frame stepping (i.e. seeking while paused)

[Jan Knutar]

On Wednesday 07 July 2004 16:07, Shachar Raindel wrote:
> Well,
>   For realtime one needs a # account on the machine that runs mplayer.

One should also look into making mplayer drop root privs if started 
suid, once it doesn't need root privs anymore, if that is at all 
possible.

Oh, and for realtime to really be useful, you really need to mlock 
mplayer. Otherwise you could get multisecond latencies as parts of 
mplayer are swapped out and/or in :-) Does your RT patch do this?
Don't be fooled to think that disabling swap will help completely, 
either, as Linux could just drop the executable and libs from RAM. :-)