David Brown wrote: > > 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.
You have a point. > 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? The time it takes to compile a kernel on my x86 laptop isn't long enough to watch a scene from a movie. Heh. However, the time it takes to compile a kernel on my 200MHz 604e is long enough to watch an entire movie. On TV. With commercials. > 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. These days even good hardware is becoming so cheap.... a
