Re: rvplayer

["Richard E. Hawkins Esq." <hawk@eyry.econ.iastate.edu>]

shao shouted,


> 	When I use rvplayer to play a file with both audio & video, I
> always get a msg slow system performance, dropping frame. i.e the video is
> not playing...

> 	I am using P166 with 64MB ram. I also tried to use nice, but
> didn't help...

nice on rvplayer will make matters worse, rather than better.

rvplayer can be cpu intensive; it has those pictures compressed in some 
format, and I think it sends changes,rather than full frames (but I 
could be wrong).  And if you use the zoom, it gets even more cycle 
hungry (hey, those nametags in Congress, and the captions on foxnes, 
can be hard to read.  I want to know who I'm laughing at :).

Anyway, the problem seems to be worse on a bad feed; i see no reason 
why my k6/200 would have problems on just a 2x2" 56k feed.

Hmm, still not to the point.  Once you start rvplayer, you can, from a 
root window, un-nice it.  Niceing a process makes it less agressive 
about cpu cycles, so make it mean :)  

    renice 12345 -10

for example, will give it  all kinds of access--thought everything else 
may suffer.  Use as close to 0 as gets you adequate performance.

rick

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