'm also using older PC types (PIII) and the cpu load of the cutting thread is seriously hampering the resposiveness of vdr. Is there a way to lower the priority of the thread for cutting ? I know there are some patches around (cutter-queue; bandwith), but both seems not to address it on the thread priority. Wouldn't it being a real solution to make the cutter a background task on nice level ? I've tried to understand how vdr sets the thread priority but I got lost. Can somebody shed some light on the was the thrad priorities are assigned and wether it woul be possible to place a single thread at nice level while vdr still uses normal sheduling. kind regards Peter
