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

[Brian Densmore]

Setting the rtc to 1024 really rocks! I get real nice smooth video and
sound now.
Also I had set the privileges to the wrong values not that I was setting
it in 
the wrong place. DOH!
Also got my usb cfdisk (compact flash and SM reader) working in gentoo. 
Had to compile usb into the kernel, 
instead of as a module.

Thanks again,
Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Clinton [mailto:jasonclinton at kcpipeband.org]
> Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 2:07 PM
> To: Jason Clinton
> Cc: Parker, Ron; kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: Re: MPlayer RTC Setting (WAS: gentoo cd/dvd permissions
> problem)
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> -- 
> Jason Clinton
> I don't believe in witty sigs.
>