Aaron Gaudio wrote : > Behold, David Balazic <david balazic hermes si> hath decreed: > > > Why don't you renice dvdauthor to a lower priority so that your mouse > > > and other bits of the OS can still function? > > > It worked beautifully. :-) > > > I used > > > renice 5 -p 3203 (3203 being the PID for mecoder at the time) > > > > Why doesn't Fedora work out of the box. Why should the user fix it ? > > > > And then people wonder why it is not a success on the desktop ... > > My limited experience with burning CDs on Windows is that its desktop > performance is also quite affected when encoding/burning stuff. And FC should copy bad properties of windows, because ... ? > As for the original question, you could Me ? Why me ? Aren't there hundreds of developers and testers who should make the final release usable in real life ? ( Yes, I missed out the FC2 test cycle. It shows ;-) ) > also probably write a shell > script to conveniently nice the encoding in the first place, so that > you don't have to use renice to change the priority on the fly... > 'man nice'. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------- http://noepatents.org/ Innovation, not litigation ! --- David Balazic mailto:david.balazic@xxxxxxxxx HERMES Softlab http://www.hermes-softlab.com Zagrebska cesta 104 Phone: +386 2 450 8851 SI-2000 Maribor Slovenija ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------- "Be excellent to each other." - Bill S. Preston, Esq. & "Ted" Theodore Logan ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------