Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750807AbWHTOnw (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Aug 2006 10:43:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750808AbWHTOnw (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Aug 2006 10:43:52 -0400 Received: from mustang.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.3]:7109 "HELO mustang.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750807AbWHTOnv (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Aug 2006 10:43:51 -0400 Subject: Re: mplayer + heavy io: why ionice doesn't help? From: Lee Revell To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Denis Vlasenko , Eric Piel , mplayer-users@mplayerhq.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <200608181937.25295.vda.linux@googlemail.com> <44E6006C.2030406@tremplin-utc.net> <200608192004.10326.vda.linux@googlemail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 10:43:45 -0400 Message-Id: <1156085026.10565.39.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 810 Lines: 21 On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 10:22 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > > >It helps. mplayer skips much less, but still some skipping is present. > > Try with -ao alsa, then it should skip less, or at least, if it skip, skip > back so that less audio is lost. > When playing audio-only files, it is always wise to specify e.g. -cache 320 > which proved to be a good value for my workloads. > Only with the very latest versions of mplayer does ALSA work at all. It's unusable here because it resets the auduio stream on each underrun rather than simply ignoring them. Lee - 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/