From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sat Nov 10 15:10: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from Mail6.nc.rr.com (fe6.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60E6137B418 for ; Sat, 10 Nov 2001 15:10:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from stealth.cary.dummynet ([66.26.231.240]) by Mail6.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Sat, 10 Nov 2001 18:10:02 -0500 Received: (from rhh@localhost) by stealth.cary.dummynet (8.11.4/8.11.4) id fAAN9aF00868; Sat, 10 Nov 2001 18:09:36 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from aa8vb@nc.rr.com) X-Authentication-Warning: stealth.cary.dummynet: rhh set sender to aa8vb@nc.rr.com using -f Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 18:09:36 -0500 From: Randall Hopper To: John Utz Cc: Erich Zigler , t6nu , multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Choppy picture with Sawfish+GNOME and fxtv Message-ID: <20011110180936.A811@nc.rr.com> References: <20011110101222.B85009@cerebro.superhero.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from john@utzweb.net on Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 12:48:02PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org John Utz: |> Awesome it worked. Any idea why this works? :) |> |> Also, is it supposed to chew up 90%+ of the CPU? | |yup! this code is a permanent while loop. it has no function calls in it, |so the OS is never free to choose to defer running the function so that |it can run something else. (more or less! this is an overly simple |explanation of multitasking :-) ) | |why hogging up the computer could possibly fix fxtv on sawfish is utterly |incomprehensible. Makes no sense to me yet either. Sawfish users (and others with this problem) should verify that: fxtv -debug events stabilizes and stops printing events _very_ quickly. If not, it could be that fxtv and the window manager are fighting each other, and capture is being constantly stopped and restarted. Randall -- Randall Hopper aa8vb@nc.rr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message