[MPlayer-users] working while dumping

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 12:52:28AM -0400, j.a.l wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Haas Wernfried wrote:
> >[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> >On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 03:27:19PM -0400, j.a.l wrote:
> >
> >>[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> >>just fix me : while dumping dvd on hdd, mplayer and mencoder do a data 
> >>transfert ( am i right ??? ), that mean, instead of burning cd or 
> >>ripping audio cd, there do not need real time access : i can code, 
> >>compil... and do other such job. ok, ripping will be much longer, i will 
> >>come back with a 250Mhz cpu like but i won't waste no more time.
> >
> >no realtime or whatever other stuff is needed for dumping/encoding, so 
> >feel free to do whatever you want while dumping/encoding.
> >hint: use nice to set your process to a lower priority, so it will not 
> >interfere with things you want to do in the foreground, but will use up
> >"unused" cpu-power: nice -n 19 mencoder -whatever
> >see "man nice" for details or just watch it with "top"
> >
> thanks, what i've thought, i already use "nice -n 19 ..." for encoding
> 
> >
> >>perhaps a tip to add into fac (?)
> >
> >FAQ? hmm seems rather like linux-basics to me :)
> >
> well, use of nice : yes, but dvd struct/access isn't basic, even here. 
> more, i know morrons that still use the pc while burning cd ( and they 
> wonder why things were wrong ), so...

Nothing wrong with that. I play QW while burning sometimes, on my own
server on localhost. IMO it's a windows problem. :)

Rich