On Tue, 24 May 2005, Robert Olson wrote: >> but it's still quite possible to send the audio quality way downhill on a >> machine that's also doing display of multiple video streams. Sharing video >> capture with audio handling these days is quite reasonable. > > Of course if the media apps grokked realtime scheduling, as they really > should, one could then run everything on one machine and just let the video > display get the short end of the runtime stick.
And assuming that the OS was a realtime OS and thus could actually provide timing assurances to applications. jh -- "Only socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labour, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?" -- Allan Bloom
