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[Neil Stevens]

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On Friday July 12, 2002 05:51, Martijn Klingens wrote:
> On Friday 12 July 2002 14:45, Neil Stevens wrote:
> > On Friday July 12, 2002 05:41, Martijn Klingens wrote:
> > > On Friday 12 July 2002 14:05, Neil Stevens wrote:
> > > > As for taking down the system, I really doubt 4 videos will do it.
> > > > I've guessed numbers like 200 in my examples.  Why don't you test
> > > > your fears, before calling for the elimination of functionality
> > > > because of them?
> > >
> > > I think that the amount of videos severely depends on the CPU power.
> > > But I can't test because I'm still running 3.0 branch... (Yeah,
> > > flame on ;-)
> >
> > I run BRANCH, but occasionally watch a video using HEAD kaboodle.  No
> > flames here. :-)
>
> Could you do the honours and see where it takes the system down?
>
> I guess it will go down faster if you stress memory by booting with
> 'ram=64M' or so, and underclocking the CPU will help too...
>
> Seriously, you might be right, but I have bad experiences with the
> responsiveness of playing movies in Windows on older hardware. Current
> hardware is faster, but current codecs are more CPU intensive as well as
> the good old mpeg1 codec. And I'm not sure how fast X11 is for video, it
> might kill performance if you don't have xshm or better.

Well, my system isn't the ideal for testing: 1GHz PIII, 512 MB RAM, good 
Matrox Xv support, good disk IO, preemptive kernel.  A system built for 
KDE development.  I'll try, though.

My personal suspicion is that the UI itself will keep the user from 
creating a big problem for himself unless he is *Trying* to take things 
down.  As you start more and more realtime decoders, the main UI will be 
less and less responsive, keeping you from starting many more decoders.

- -- 
Neil Stevens - neil at qualityassistant.com
"I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding
because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they
have not a single political argument left." - Margaret Thatcher
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