[mythtv-users] Ways to improve TV Out quality

[David]

Hamish Moffatt wrote:

>On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 12:32:05PM +0100, David wrote:
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>>Hamish Moffatt wrote:
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>>>>I reniced X  -12 and mythfrontend  -2.. which basically gives them a bit 
>>>>more priority.
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>>>How, unless you run mythfrontend as root?
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>>man renice
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>     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
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>So, to repeat my question, how unless as root?
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sorry, I was trying to be helpful and thought the man page expressed it 
well (I did man renice before posting).

you ask originally "how unless you run _mythfrontend_ as root"

The extract you provide tells you - still run the mythfrontend as user 
myth then login as superuser and renice it.
The super-user may alter the priority of _any_ process (including those 
running as other users)

(if you felt the need you could script a renice as part of the root 
owned/run startup init script that does su myth mythfrontend)

HTH

David