[MPlayer-cygwin] mplayer uses to much CPU on cygwin

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 02:03:06AM +0200, Sven Köhler wrote:
> i've today played an mp3 with mplayer, and i noticed two things:
> 
> - if i'm working with some other appz like mozilla, mplayer inerrupts 
> the playback because it has not enough CPU.
> - with nice --19 mplayer ...
> mplayer uses up to 100% CPU which is too much for just playing an mp3.
> 
> what may cause this?
> i'm using the precompiled mplayer-cvs-2003-03-24.zip from your ftp.

That thing is ancient.  There are newer snapshots available at the same
location.  If your problem persists, try compiling MPlayer from source.

Diego