On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 03:16:52PM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: > doing. So if DVD playback is really all that important (hint: it's > not) then just set your system up to be dual boot. Problem solved, > geez can we move on? Please don't tell me that you want to do other > things while watching your DVDs, that's just silly.
Why is it so silly? I run backups on my machine and play 3d video games at the same time. I wouldn't even think of doing something like this under a non-Linux OS. I can see background tasks wanting to run while doing other things in the foreground. Do you ever go read something while the kernel is compiling, why not watch another scene from a movie? Realistically, there is probably a reason that Apple's DVD player isn't going to let much else happen while playing the movie. They've tuned performance for all of the CPU, and probably wouldn't handle the scheduling of another task happening. Now, if DVD playback could be done with real-time scheduling, it might work. If your CPU was very close to the needed horsepower, not much else will happen, though. I personally have a different approach, the DVD playback is done by one computer, and the compiling is done on another computer. But, not everyone has that luxury. Dave Brown
