Multimedia in Linux

[Mark Peoples]

Your video card might be stealing system ram. Try fiddling with the video
ram aperture in bios, if you have the option.



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From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
[mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Lucas
Vogel
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 12:50 AM
To: 'plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us'
Subject: RE: Multimedia in Linux


I have a Diamond Speedstar A55 with 8 MB RAM. I also have a Voodoo2 graphics
accelerator(though I don't know if it's up and running or not- I get some
kind of message about MMR during bootup and I don't run any games so I don't
know if it's really even being used). It would seem, at least to me, that
i've got plenty o'beef :) However, my chopping problems are still pretty
bad, even after renicing.



-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Peoples [mailto:gascsd@gascairlines.com]
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 10:23 PM
To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Subject: RE: Multimedia in Linux


By chance, what are the specs on your video card?

I had a similar problem, but when I put in a beefier video card, it never
happened again...

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From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
[mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Lucas
Vogel
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 10:14 PM
To: 'plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us'
Subject: RE: Multimedia in Linux


Would renicing processes help with the problems I am having playing mp3's? I
am using AfterStep for a window manager, and whenever I move a window and my
mp3 player is playing(any of them actually) it chokes the player and makes
it sound like a skipping CD. My icecast server(or the streamer) seem to have
the same problems. Would renicing help? What kind of effects does renicing
have on processes?

Thanks

-----Original Message-----
From: Jason [mailto:jkenner@mindspring.com]
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 11:35 AM
To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Subject: Re: Multimedia in Linux


Mark Myers wrote:

> Is there a way that I can boost multimedia performance in Linux?

renice -19 XSERVERPID
renice -10 PROCESSORINTENSIVEMULTIMEDIAPID

Specifically, things to fiddle with are the level of the X server
itself, the level of the application that does the CPU-intensive
stuff, and the default level of everything else as a last resort. You
may be running into problems because the machine is deciding it would
rather figure out what comes next than work on displaying what has
already been figured out.

I was getting MP3s to play smoothly on an AMD X5 at 160MHz (an
overclocked 133MHz 5x86 ) by renicing everything to 10, then the
player (splay 0.7) to -20 ..



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