Hi folks,
This is cross post on xine-devel and linux-kernel lists.
Some xine guys are aware of my experiments comparing multimedia
performance in latest kernels (2.4.x and 2.5.x), so instead of preparing
a lengthy email i've just put a page with it.
At this text i present a dummy multimedia simulator which pretends to be
a video player and measures the number of frames that would be dropped
(and also the mean latency). I used ConTest script to generate the
background loads and take some interesting results.
I hope this will be useful not only to improve xine but also kernel
support in general for any other multimedia player.
http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/~miguel/multimedia_sim/
Any comments, flames, etc are apreciated (that is, not the flames :)
l-k people, please cc me, i'm not subscribed.
regards,
Miguel Freitas