[MPlayer-users] Re: mplayer + heavy io: why ionice doesn't help?

[Denis Vlasenko]

On Sunday 20 August 2006 18:57, Jan Knutar wrote:
> On Sunday 20 August 2006 19:43, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> 
> > I think that these skips are caused by the X server.
> > It has no prioritization for request handling and
> > thus it does not paint mplayer output fast enough:
> > it needs to repaint background and semi-transparent
> > konsole(s), and that is taking a few seconds at least.
> > 
> > This is probably aggravated by serializing nature of Xlib,
> > according to:
> 
> MPlayer works much better in that regard via xmga than

Something Matrox-specific I guess?
I have Radeon X550 here...

> Xvideo, I've noticed. Probably because X only paints the
> colourkey once, and then MPlayer does the rest...

Well, in the long term XLib (or maybe XCB) needs
to have support for nice levels.
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vda