for me only obvious positive difference comes from increasing cache from 256 mb to 2048 mvb<div><br></div><div>but I am on 32-bit cin + 64 bit Linux kernel (5.1.12)</div><div><br></div><div>I tried with single 1080p 24 fps vp9 video as downloaded from youtube. With default 256 mb cache reverse playback stutters a lot. With 512 it stutters less. With 2048 mb it stutters only ocassionally. </div><div><br></div><div>Changing preroll renders from 0 to 100.0 does not change things for me. <br><br>On Tuesday, May 3, 2022, Phyllis Smith via Cin <<a href="mailto:cin@lists.cinelerra-gg.org">cin@lists.cinelerra-gg.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">That is quite a discovery. Hopefully, I can find time today to test that as I have a really slow laptop and a decent faster laptop.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Maybe that is what makes the difference. OR it could just be 0.5 seconds is leftover from the really old days.<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, May 3, 2022 at 2:18 AM Andrea paz via Cin <<a href="mailto:cin@lists.cinelerra-gg.org" target="_blank">cin@lists.cinelerra-gg.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">One thing that has always bothered me is that in the transition from<br>
an 11 year old notebook to a mid-to-high level PC, playback and<br>
especially reverse playback always suffered from the same lags and<br>
framerate drops. There wasn't the improvement I expected. In the<br>
Preferences > Performance tab, I tried increasing the "Cache size"<br>
from 256MB (default) to 4096MB without noticing any change (I have<br>
32GB of RAM). I never touched the "Seconds to preroll renders" option,<br>
which by default is 0.5 seconds. Now I've tried to set it to 1.0s and<br>
the improvement in playback and reverse playback is EVIDENT!<br>
If anyone feels like trying to take a problematic project in timeline<br>
and increase the preroll time and then report the results, it would be<br>
a favor to me. If the improvement is also confirmed by others I will<br>
immediately put the tip in the manual, because it seems very important<br>
to me.<br>
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