Comment 1 for bug 11643

I don't see anyplace in xine where it raises its nice value. If it's running as
root, it will try to lower it, but presumably you aren't running it as root, and
even if you were, that wouldn't trigger powernowd's logic.

Perhaps something else is nicing it? In any case, I think that nicing parts of
xine is not a very good idea, and whatever is doing it should stop.