[MPlayer-dev-eng] Patch: Low latency audio enhancements

[Attila Kinali]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 12:50:47AM +0300, Ivan Kalvachev wrote:
 
> Changing syncronization code is at least tricky.
> For example if I understand your work right, you decrease the
> time mplayer will sleep. But on 2.4.x kernels (without RTC hack)
> you cannot sleep for less than 20ms (schedular). This may mean that
> your code may lead to :
> a) bigger a-v error and jurkness
> b) higher CPU usage because mplayer will avoid sleeping.
> 
> Well b) is acceptable, but a) is not!

b) isnt acceptable either. On a low end system, you need every
cpu cycle you can get.

			Attila Kinali