[MPlayer-users] performance enhancing options

[Stephen Mollett]

On Monday 02 Dec 2002 20:30, Øyvind Stegard wrote:
> perhaps you could try the preemptive kernel patch
> (http://www.tech9.net/rml/linux/), to reduce the latency/response time of
> your system. This is, in general, supposed to help multimedia performance.
> It worked  for me when playing DVDs with mplayer. (better audio synch +
> smoothed playback a bit)

I've had problems using that in conjunction with ALSA - hard lockups while 
playing sound, oopses, etc. It does improve playback, though, when it works. 
I haven't tried the latest preempt/alsa together; I might do that when I get 
round to compiling 2.4.20.

Stephen