[vlc-devel] [RFC] revert Win32: always use the performance timers

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 09:58:38PM +0100, Laurent Aimar wrote :
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 07:37:49PM +0100, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> > >> Oh sure. If you merge this, I am going to assume that someone else
> > >> is taking over maintenance of the Win32 base support code from me.
> > >> I admit I do a poor job since I cannot test what I'm doing (Wine
> > >> does not seem to run VLC from build tree). But I have not seen any
> > >> volunteer to do the work.
> > > 
> > > It would only be a revert in the stable branch.
> > 
> > The problem won't magically fix itself in the development branch. The new
> > src/win32/ maintainer will fix it. That's really nice :-) Now I can
> > concentrate on other stuff that I am better at and more interested in.
> 
>  What were the exact issue when we used timeGetTime()?

The issue was that some people, especially the ones using AMD Cool &
Quiet systems had issues.
Some people using O/C CPU too (but maybe it was a symptom of another
 problem)

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