[MPlayer-users] Re: choppy cd audio

[Alban Bedel]

Hi mike at zcentric.com,

on Tue, 4 Nov 2003 18:56:24 -0500 (EST) you wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read
> DOCS/bugreports.html] I have tried to play a cd audio file by
> 
> mplayer cdda://
> mplayer cddb://
> mplayer cddb://1- -cache 2048
> 
> I seem to get the audio to pause for like a second every 3-5 seconds or
> so. I have dma enabled on all ide devices and mp3's and even dvds from
> the same drive are fine. I get the same results on a completely
> different computer and using different CDs

In mplayer cd audio reading use libcdparanoia. So in fact it extract
audio data, but some drives performs rather poorly in this mode.
All you can do is trying a bigger cache (i sometimes use cache up to
16-20MB for scrathy cd's) and/or -ccda paranoia=0 wich can help also.
If all that fail just get a better drive ;) 
	Albeu
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