Hi,
whenever I watch a video while my freevo box is recording something, the video
appears rather choppy. This would be ok for me if top told me that there is
no idle time left, but there is about 20% idle all the time. I also can not
really imagine that the disk is the problem. It does not change at all when I
give the mplayer command a -cache 100000.
So I have played around with my BIOS settings. Perhaps it is a little bit
better now after optimizing some timing settings, but it stays being a little
bit choppy.
I have also played around with the nice values for mplayer and mencoder. I
have mencoder with nice -12 and mplayer with -5. I have also tried to give
mplayer a lower nice that mencoder. This way, watching the videos were not
choppy any more, but I had some frame drops sometimes. So I kept mencoder
with the lower nice, because it is more important for me to have nice
recordings.
So, does anyone have an idea how to make mplayer use my systems ressources?
Alternatively: How can I check where the bottleneck is?
Regards,
Thorsten
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