[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Better ARM support for mplayer/ffmpeg, ported from atty fork

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 07:04:03PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 12:12:00AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 12:09:51AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > > 
> > > Did anybody have a look at this?
> > > 
> > > It contains several things that should be committed separately.
> > 
> > Among this is support for realtime scheduling, might be interesting.
> 
> Realtime does NOT belong in MPlayer.

I only glanced at the code quickly, but I think it supports more
scheduling classes than just realtime.  BTW, we already have support for
setting priorities for Windows.

I don't think we should attempt to be cleverer than our users by
preventing them from doing possibly dangerous things.  Put a warning in
the manual and be done with it.  If they shoot themselves in the foot,
oh well, we told them to be careful.

Small anecdote: I used to have a Pentium 120 Notebook that was barely
fast enough to play mono MP3 files without skipping.  When I ran mpg123
as a realtime task I could play stereo files...

> I know of several trivial ways to
> put MPlayer in an infinite loop, one of which is trying to seek past
> the end of any matroska file.

That's clearly a bug that needs to be fixed then.  Report it to Moritz,
he reacts rather promptly.

Diego