mailbox, mostly worthless flames about "mplayerxp". Nick, go ahead really care what you do as long as you stop flooding my mailbox with crap. I expect most of the rest of the people on the list feel the Actually I find this discussion quite valuable, there are some quite interesting questions asked AND answered ( some of those answers i'm still waiting for.. ;)

and about threads - I was always under impression that those are windoze stuff, due to very hevyweight processess there. And under normall circumstances processes with shm are much better. And on multi-cpu systems threads could be disastrous - they create cache coherency problems ( sine in thread ALL of data is shared, all of it must be synced between CPUs, so it wastes gobs of memory bandwith ), with procs you explicitly mark data that should be shared and thus synced. But this is irrelevant since most of us don't use multicpu systems for watching videos, and my system wouldn't gain speed from nicks idea, so for me this is academic discussion, quite interesting one though. oh, just a note - Nick says that he was able to do some background compiles while playing movies, so can I, so this says nothing about speed improvements. -- Dariusz Pietrzak Yes, I am over 18, although my IQ isn't