[mythtv-users] Giving mythfrontend a higher priority

[Robert]

On Fri, October 3, 2008 4:34 am, Bobby Gill wrote:
> I use mythfrontend on one monitor in a dual monitor setup and am wondering
> how to give it a higher priority/lower nice level as I usually am working
> on
> a doc/surfing/whatever on the other monitor and sometimes the task causes
> playback in mythfrontend to stutter/pause briefly (definitely not common
> but
> happens).
>
> Thanks
> Bob

You could just "renice" it - something like:

sudo renice -20 `pidof mythfrontend`

but you'd have to do it each time you started mythfrontend.

I'm sure there is also an option in the setup screens like "enable real
time priority" - but you have to do some additional config to get this to
work.  I think it's fairly simple and you just have to set mythfrontend to
run with elevated privilidges (setuid??).  I've never tried it, but thats
probably your best option.

Robert.