Pausing and Skipping during DVD Playback

[David Legg]

What is the patch (mentioned below) for making your kernel pre-emptive, 
please?

Carlo Calabro wrote:

> On Fri, May 10, 2002, philo vivero wrote:
> 
>> I've been using VLC now for about 1.5 years (since the bad old days). Very
>> impressive, yes.
>> 
>> Now I'm running 0.2.91, and I still have this bug:
> 
> 
> Maybe you could try and download version 0.3.1... vlc has strongly
> improved since 0.2.91...
> 
> 
>> Guess 1: The Linux kernel isn't pre-emptable so IDE kernel calls to the
>> DVD drive cause the VLC process to lose CPU too long.
> 
> 
> There is an excellent patch to make a 2.4.18 pre-emptive. I have been
> running it for a couple of months and it is doing a good job.
> 
> Hope this helps,



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