[mythtv-users] Ways to improve TV Out quality

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Friday 30 July 2004 05:48, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 12:32:05PM +0100, David wrote:
> > Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > >>I reniced X  -12 and mythfrontend  -2.. which basically gives
> > >> them a bit more priority.
> > >
> > >How, unless you run mythfrontend as root?
> >
> > man renice
>
>      Users other than the super-user may only alter the priority of
> processes they own, and can only monotonically increase their ``nice
> value'' within the range 0 to PRIO_MAX (20).  (This prevents
> overriding administrative fiats.)  The super-user may alter the
> priority of any process and set the priority to any value in the
> range PRIO_MIN (-20) to PRIO_MAX.  Useful
>
> So, to repeat my question, how unless as root?

I believe you can run the process as an ordinary user, then use root to 
renice it.

-JAC