[openbeos] Re: mov reader

"David McPaul" <dmcpaul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > That doesn't sound too well, and could also point to problems in 
> > the 
> > Media Kit iself, not only in your code. Marcus?
> A further look I found that a thread called "<MovieName> control" 
> gets 
> given priority 110 and this thread is taking the CPU time, the mouse 
> thread is only priority 104.
> 
> I will look for where this thread is started from.
> 
> Ultimately, the cpu issue is my code or something my code is doing to 
> confuse the audio output.  But I am  not sure a media control should 
> have such a high priority.

Only low computing tasks should get a high priority. If this thread 
"owns" the CPU, there is something wrong with it.
Audio tasks are usually very time critical, so a high priority doesn't 
sound wrong per se.

Bye,
   Axel.

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