[vlc-devel] [PATCH] Drop POSIX real-time priorities

Francois Cartegnie fcvlcdev at free.fr
Mon Mar 30 15:48:23 CEST 2020


Le 30/03/2020 à 15:44, Rémi Denis-Courmont a écrit :
> This only worked with root privileges, meaning it was pure placebo for
> those few users that actually invoked the command line flag.
> 
> And then it seems more likely to crash the system than the achieve its
> purpose, seen as VLC was never designed to handle real-time scheduling.

AFAIU the vlc_thread priorities have also zero effect.

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Francois Cartegnie
VideoLAN - VLC Developer


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