Re: [xine-devel] Divx4 support done (Testing but not committed)

[Michael R. <mr...@us...>]

Hi James,

> A better way might be to alter vo_frame_draw so that the
> frames_to_skip is not limited to being positive. This I guess would
> give an indication of how far ahead the decoder is and so how much
> extra time is available. Playing files here seems to give a pretty
> constant -20 so something like this might work:
>
> frames_to_skip < -15 => adjust score towards greater quality
> frames_to_skip > -5 => adjust score towards lower quality
> frames_to_skip > 0 => adjust score towards lower quality v.
> quickly/immediately reduce quality
>
> The config slider could be used to set the maximum level. There are
> still probably going to be situations where the quality will yo-yo
> between two quality settings but this shouldn't be too noticable.

This sounds like a really great idea. IIRC the skip value was allowed to 
be negative once, so reintroducting this should have no side effects.

> I would try it out but I seem to be having problems generating enough
> load to make xine start skipping frames. Kernel compiles/cpuburn
> don't seem to have any effect despite putting cpu usage at 100%. Any
> ideas?

Use XShm output and switch to fullscreen if necessary. If this is still 
not enough, open more than one xine instance.

Michael

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