[MPlayer-dev-eng] N-buffering...

[Trent Piepho]

On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Rich Felker wrote:
> - kill any other processes that might be wasting cpu time. bloatware like
> gnome, mozilla,etc. is known to waste cpu even when idle.

KDE has a program which checks for a new CD being inserted into a CD-rom
drive.  On my wife's computer, this causes everything to freeze for a half
second when the check happens.