[MPlayer-users] Re: mplayer + heavy io: why ionice doesn't help?

[Jan Knutar]

On Sunday 20 August 2006 19:43, Denis Vlasenko wrote:

> I think that these skips are caused by the X server.
> It has no prioritization for request handling and
> thus it does not paint mplayer output fast enough:
> it needs to repaint background and semi-transparent
> konsole(s), and that is taking a few seconds at least.
> 
> This is probably aggravated by serializing nature of Xlib,
> according to:

MPlayer works much better in that regard via xmga than
Xvideo, I've noticed. Probably because X only paints the
colourkey once, and then MPlayer does the rest...