[SLL] technically speaking, what might the vendor do?

[Rob Smith]

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 9:10 AM, Mathew D. Watson
<watson at visiongate3d.com> wrote:
> There is a large performance difference between running the camera app as
> root and running the app at 30 fsp and as a regular user, at a -20 nice
> value, at 10 fps. The fraction of corrupted images drops by dramatically (a
> factor of a 1000 IIRC) when running as root.

Did you try changing the RTC max user frequency values?

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Frame_display_timing#Adjusting_the_RTC_Interrupt_Frequency

That's a fairly big difference for users vs root out of the box.