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List:       kde-multimedia
Subject:    Re: noatun
From:       Neil Stevens <multivac () fcmail ! com>
Date:       2001-01-13 15:11:07
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On Saturday 13 January 2001 06:37 am, Martin Vogt wrote:
> What happens if you play a mpeg video or divx video, when
> the decoding takes up all cpu power?
> I think you need to reboot the system, this is not a good
> reputation for noatun, aRts, and KDE && LINUX.

Well, I don't recommend noatun to anyone for video playing yet.

> The clicks you see: We never found out what causes them
> A pentiumpro is fast enough to work without clicks,
> when switching desktops.
> xmms can handle high loads too without clicks && realtime priority.

Right, but I don't want to use xmms.  I want to use noatun.  And as long 
as real time artsd is the only way I can keep noatun usable, then I have 
to use real time artd.  Well, it's that, or I have to go port kmp3 to KDE 
2.

> > I just tested it.  I turned off realtime priority, and
> > killed/restarted artsd.  Merely scrolling in konqueror (again, a
> > release build),  or switching desktops, can be enough to cause noatun
> > to skip.  With realtime priority on, I can do compiles, and not have
> > to go play a CD due to noatun skipping.
>
> have you restarted artsd with
>
> -F5 -S 8192 options?

I just gave those settings a brutal test:  I loaded up gimp (swap), then 
opened up, at once, every image and thumbnail (around 40 images in all) in 
the noatun web site's screenshots directory (swap swap), then switched 
desktops to konq (swap swap swap), loaded kuro5hin.org, and scrolled 
around.

That wasn't a brutal test, that was an unfair test.  The only harder thing 
for it to survive would be compiling mcopidel.  But artsd survived.  No 
skips from noatun.

Why isn't this setting the default?  It's the only non-realtime setting 
I've tried yet that doesn't skip.

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