Linux kernel multimedia experiments

[Miguel Freitas]

Hi folks,

This is cross post on xine-devel and linux-kernel lists. 

Some xine guys are aware of my experiments comparing multimedia
performance in latest kernels (2.4.x and 2.5.x), so instead of preparing
a lengthy email i've just put a page with it.

At this text i present a dummy multimedia simulator which pretends to be
a video player and measures the number of frames that would be dropped
(and also the mean latency). I used ConTest script to generate the
background loads and take some interesting results.

I hope this will be useful not only to improve xine but also kernel
support in general for any other multimedia player. 

http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/~miguel/multimedia_sim/

Any comments, flames, etc are apreciated (that is, not the flames :)

l-k people, please cc me, i'm not subscribed.

regards,

Miguel Freitas