[MPlayer-users] Mplayer_jerky on VIA

[Clemens Wächter]

On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 16:42:38 -0400
Leslie Huszar <lhuszar at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> I treied to use Mplayer 0.9 with Athlon running Redhat 8.0  and the 
> movie is  jerky.
> Then I tried it on VIA 800Mhz motherboard and the result is the  same, 
> it  appers that the reads fromthe DVD are not continuous and the movie 
> is  jumpy, jerky, discontinuous.
> Next I tried on double Pentium III and it is s ome  beter but still not 
> enjoyabele.
> 
> Can you advise ?

Well, we'd need some extra information, like:

a) Did you read the documentation?
b) How much horsepower does the Athlon have ( MHZ, Ram, etc)?
c) Is the DMA enabled for the dvd drive?
d) Did you try -cache xxxx ( xxxx=8192 is a good choice, often)

Clemens Wächter