Audio/Video Out of Sync

[David Cantrell]

On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 12:46:51PM +0100, RS wrote:
> >From: David Cantrell Sent: Monday, August 15, 2016 23:37
> >I'd like to rate-limit get_iplayer so that other things on the same 
> >machine that are also talking to the internet don't run like stunned slugs 
> >in treacle.
> >Second, I'm not using Linux.
> You don't say which non-Linux operating system you are using.  Your 
> description doesn't correspond with any version of Windows, 32 bit or 64 
> bit

Yes, it does. This would affect Windows just as much as any other OS.

>     I have used except maybe Windows 3.1.  Here downloading HLSHD with 
> get_iplayer at speeds up to 80Mbit/s on an elderly 2.33GHz Core 2 Duo with 
> 4GByte of RAM in 64 bit Windows 10 Home and a 10/100 LAN card gave a CPU 
> usage of between 20% and 52% and memory usage barely above background.  How 
> much RAM have you got?

CPU and RAM are not the limiting factors. Network bandwidth is. Other
stuff is slowing down because it's waiting to send or receive packets.

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David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire

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