Re: libdvdread

H}kan Hjort ([email protected]):

> Thu Jul 25 2002, Niels Provos wrote:
> > 
> > I am wondering what your performance considerations for libdvdread
> > are.  I notice that applications like mplayer do not do large reads.
> > I might be useful to introduce a caching layer into libdvdread so
> > that small block reads can be answered from the cache.
> > 
> There haven't be any so far.  When or why do you think this is a
> problem?
> 
> The read request are just passed down as it stands now.  Either to the
> c library or to libdvdcss.
> 
> Caching should (and does) take place under the care of the OS,
> likewise for readahead, I'd guess. 

  Also implementing POSIX aio methods would be useful too.  I keep
meaning to try this out to see.

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Billy Biggs
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