[MPlayer-cygwin] [PATCH] automatic high-priority

Reimar Döffinger Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de
Sun Oct 24 21:06:25 CEST 2004


Hi,

> High priority is in general a bad thing because it makes your OS
> inresponsive. If you want to give MPlayer more timeslices of your CPU to
> avoid video skips etc, don't go higher than "abovenormal" with your
> settings.

Except for the fact that there is no such process priority in e.g. Windows 98.
And as to the reason why this is necessary: Play mp3 with mplayer and
start a (bigger) program. MPlayer will then stutter due to Windows stupid
scheduler, although it uses only 1% CPU.

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger




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