[Mplayer-dvb] "stuttering" picture - buffer?

[Rene Bartsch]

Am Mon, 2002-06-10 um 19.22 schrieb bernd_muc at gmx.de:
> Hi,
> 
> I've observed that when replaying high quality DIVXs from hard disk or from 
> CD, the picture "stutters" a little bit when the drive is accessed (it's 
> worse with CD). When I watch the same sequence again (by jumping back some 
> minutes), there's no such effect. The sound plays along perfectly.
> 
> So I wonder if there's some sort of prefetch buffer which can be increased 
> in size - or if there's none, if it would be possible to add one to MPlayer?
> 
> I'm using MPlayer 20-05-2002.
> 

Newer versions of Mplayer (I think it is up from 0.60) have '-cache
XXXXX'-option (they use 8192 Kb by standard). In your case I assume a
DMA problem. Do you have DMA enabled at BIOS and Linux?

Rene