So, a buddy discovered (using ps -acxl in Terminal) that:
1. When QT Player has no movies playing, it has a relatively "normal"
process priority of 62 or so. However, once you play one or more
movies, the process's priority jumps to 97.
2. Similar thing happens with a browser: the browser's priority is
normal when no QT movie playing, but (via the QT plug in) if a movie
is played the browser's priority jumps to 97.
Both of these make sense, with the latter esp. interesting since QT
is causing the priority of a process it doesnt own to change.
Anyway, we were wondering if anyone knows what QT is doing to change
the priority of these apps?
We figure it's all super low level unix magic that we'd not be able
to do since we're not apple and don't own the OS, but we can't help
but wonder and hope that maybe some QT folk on this list would share
a little insight into to this way cool trick...
BTW, i did notice that my app, which plays back QT movies, does NOT
have its priority change when I'm playing a QT movie. Bummer,
that'd be a nice trick for bumping the performance of my app if it did!
Ando
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