AW: [MPlayer-users] rtc wasting 15% CPU

[The Wanderer]

RC wrote:

> On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 11:48:52 -0500 The Wanderer
> <inverseparadox at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
>> Either there's something weird about your system,
> 
> Standard Slackware 10.0 install, with only very minor changes.
> Shouldn't be anything weird about it at all.

No, there shouldn't, but I've learned that "weird" can crop up in
unexpected places. ^_^

>> or perhaps the file I'm using to test is sufficiently complicated
>> that the effects of timing issues get swamped in the rest of the
>> processing being done...
> 
> That would be my guess as well.  It could also be that I'm using a
> 2.4 kernel, while you are using 2.6.

Also a very possible answer. The fact that, as I discovered after
matthieu asked about it, I do not have any RTC-related modules for my
running kernel might also be relevant... it may be time I changed
kernels again. (I still haven't figured out when, if ever, it's
appropriate to change the kernel headers I use for compilation
purposes... I've seen arguments both for "whenever you change your
kernel" and "only when you change every single program on your system to
match the new headers", and neither seems practical to me.)

>> how would I go about producing, or otherwise obtaining, a file
>> which matches the specs of the one you're testing with?
> 
> They're just TV-card captures...  4Mbit MPEG-2 video (NTSC: 720x480
> interlaced), with 384kbit 2ch MP2 audio. You could use a DVB stream,
> or dump a DVD to disk (and re-encode the audio to MP2).

I don't have a TV card, I've never known what "DVB" is, and I don't have
a DVD drive (installed, anyway - I got one for Christmas, but I haven't
shut down to put it in yet). Still, I may be able to come up with
something to fit that.

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