Re: mplayer + heavy io: why ionice doesn't help?

["Nick Warne" <nick.warne@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Have you followed this:

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/rtc.html

Not that it will help, I don't know, but it could be to do with timing.

Nick

On 18/08/06, Denis Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I noticed that mplayer's video playback starts to skip
> if I do some serious copying or grepping on the disk
> with movie being played from.
>
> nice helps, but does not eliminate the problem.
> I guessed that this is a problem with mplayer
> failing to read next portion of input data in time,
> so I used Jens's ionice.c from
> Documentation/block/ioprio.txt
>
> I am using it this:
>
> ionice -c1 -n0 -p<mplayer pid>
>
> but so far I don't see any effect from using it.
> mplayer still skips.
>
> Does anybody have an experience in this?
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