[MPlayer-users] Re: Random pause while playback?

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Dear Johathan:

  I have tried "-cache 20000" and a bunch of other mplayer
commands without success on my VIA EPIA board. My hard disk
is a seagate IDE 80GB one and hdparm reports about 39MB/sec
in udma5 mode. -vo=xvidix

I am quite in despair now...

Sincerely,
Bob Cheng

> In my experience, if MPlayer needs all of the CPU time for playback, 
> there aren't really pauses, but the playback just gets jerky. I would 
> guess it's an IO throughput problem somewhere. The first thing is to 
> make sure MPlayer is using a large enough buffer. Try "-cache 8192" if 
> there isn't already a large buffer. Make sure DMA is enabled on the 
> drive from you're playing. Try copying the movie or part of it to a 
> faster drive

> I know very little about MPlayer internals, since I'm just a user. One 
> of the developers may be able to give more insight.

> Jonathan Rogers

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