[MPlayer-users] performance enhancing options
Stephen Mollett
molletts at yahoo.com
Mon Dec 2 22:30:03 CET 2002
On Monday 02 Dec 2002 20:30, Øyvind Stegard wrote:
> perhaps you could try the preemptive kernel patch
> (http://www.tech9.net/rml/linux/), to reduce the latency/response time of
> your system. This is, in general, supposed to help multimedia performance.
> It worked for me when playing DVDs with mplayer. (better audio synch +
> smoothed playback a bit)
I've had problems using that in conjunction with ALSA - hard lockups while
playing sound, oopses, etc. It does improve playback, though, when it works.
I haven't tried the latest preempt/alsa together; I might do that when I get
round to compiling 2.4.20.
Stephen
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