[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: Make -nortc the default?

[Uoti Urpala]

On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 00:58 +0000, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> time mplayer -rtc cars-tsr4_h1080p.mov
> 225 frames dropped
> 39,3 sec CPU
> 
> time mplayer -nortc cars-tsr4_h1080p.mov
> 134 frames dropped
> 37,5 sec CPU

If the video is already so much behind that framedrop is triggered (if
enabled) then the timing loop that reads the rtc device is not entered
at all. If there's a speed difference it means that just having the
device open and frequency set slows down the process (or the whole
machine?).