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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