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From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>
To: gentoo-desktop@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-desktop] Re: Re: Multimedia Playback Speed
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 13:37:44
Message-Id: pan.2006.04.20.13.32.34.220476@cox.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-desktop] Re: Multimedia Playback Speed by Lindsay Haisley
1 Lindsay Haisley posted <20060419222527.GA9563@×××.com>, excerpted below,
2 on Wed, 19 Apr 2006 17:25:27 -0500:
3
4 > Thus spake Paul de Vrieze on Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 03:22:57AM CDT
5 >>
6 >> Enabling rtc support in your kernel, and adjusting the user level
7 >> precision allowed really does help mplayer. That makes the timing suck a
8 >> lot less.
9 >>
10 >> (Add the following line to /etc/sysctl.conf) dev.rtc.max-user-freq=1024
11 >
12 > Thanks for the suggestion, but no help here. max-user-freq is set by
13 > default at 64. changing the value has no apparent effect on the sound
14 > playback rate.
15
16 Note that in ordered for it to take effect you'd have to either issue the
17 sysctl manually or reboot. Just setting it in the config file won't show
18 any effect until you reboot.
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22 "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
23 and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in
24 http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html
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