MPlayer RTC Setting (WAS: gentoo cd/dvd permissions problem)

[Jason Clinton]

Jason Clinton wrote:
> decoding and displaying a DVD). The RTC (real-time-clock) is a version
> of the clock that returns 'ticks' and a set frequency that are read from
> a memory register. This allows accurate sycronization of the audio
> decoder stream with the video MPEG2. This is really important for DivX
> streams too.

I should also add that the RTC gets high IO priority and if a user is
allow to set the refresh frequency too high, they can choke out all
other system functions from occurring. That command raises the
max-user-freq from 64 to 1024. That's still not that high for modern
systems but on a 386 or 486 it would completely shut out everything else.

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Jason Clinton
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