[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Frame stepping (i.e. seeking while paused)

[Jan Knutar]

> Making mplayer realtime is incredibly dumb since it can and will lock
> up the system on bad movies.

Yes, I agree.

> In fact making any process realtime is 
> incredibly dumb.

Indeed, I learned this the hard way, with one of my own programs that 
made the fatal assumption that the "enlightened" bit in 'esd' did not 
stand for "so fucked up high on crack and pot you wouldnt believe it".

> That would make a lot more sense. Actually you could do it via /proc:
> mmap /proc/[pid]/mem and mlock it.

Erk, really?