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

[Rune Petersen]

Hi,

I see.
How about this:
	Use by default "abovenormal" priority for Win2K/XP/2k3...
	and "high" priority for older versions of windows.(runtime)

	And make an option to change the priority using something like:
		-priority "normal"|"abovenormal"|"high"....
	or
		-priority 1..99


This way the lowest possible priority is used and if peoples want to 
change it they can.
And -priority makes more sence to me this way;)

Rune Petersen

Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> 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