#321 Assign niceness (priority) of mplayer process

[Zorael]

As the summary implies, would love for there to be a GUI setting to set the niceness of the mlpayer process. I can start smplayer with 'nice=-15 smplayer', but I'd prefer it if only the mplayer process itself (and not the gui) enjoyed the extra scheduling. I'm on a netbook, horribly underpowered, so while I can play 720p content somewhat with my own compiled mplayer with CoreAVC support it's obvious that I'm pushing it.

I'm currently running Kubuntu Jaunty, with smplayer version 0.6.8-1~jaunty2 from the rvm launchpad ppa, if that matters. There are options to add arguments passed to mplayer, but no such thing to set commands prepended to the mplayer command (like nice=-15).

[Sergey Kondakov]

I second that. Moreover, if JACK output is used it's clear that mplayer stumbles more othen (even if that's not noticable) when ran with average priority as other user processes. For now i have settled with the script /usr/local/bin/mplayer.sh:

1 2	#!/bin/sh nice -n -2 chrt -v -r 1 mplayer "$@"