Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751451AbWHRR5N (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Aug 2006 13:57:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751449AbWHRR5M (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Aug 2006 13:57:12 -0400 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.189]:32170 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751448AbWHRR5K (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Aug 2006 13:57:10 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=EDu4rEMjK2zo5f3vsz0knP379cm4vr4GT1Vps9bjRMjsYe5ZoLSA+55AOKDEoGRcaB3xIe3l6UW8hPuS07iSpeNKUigX5cX+aliD1Ycz6GFu+3xWGefwGsg13r9CG5yWjTJGtC/Yg/hedLjU5ysO+kiTL7LoQZvouZ07WXTiRLg= Message-ID: <7c3341450608181057j6b4df954v48b993a0891d82dc@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 18:57:09 +0100 From: "Nick Warne" Reply-To: nick@linicks.net To: "Denis Vlasenko" Subject: Re: mplayer + heavy io: why ionice doesn't help? Cc: mplayer-users@mplayerhq.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200608181937.25295.vda.linux@googlemail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200608181937.25295.vda.linux@googlemail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1281 Lines: 44 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 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 > > but so far I don't see any effect from using it. > mplayer still skips. > > Does anybody have an experience in this? > -- > vda > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/