[MPlayer-users] Re: Cache doesn't refill

[Adam Nielsen]

> MPlayer syncs video to the clock of the soundcard IIRC. If your
> soundcard is a bit too fast, your cache will run out sooner or later
> since the broadcast comes in with a steady framerate. It is well known
> that soundcards are pretty bad wrt their clock accuracy.

This should be pretty easy to test: mplayer -nosound.  If there are no
cache underruns, it's definitely the sound card.

Cheers,
Adam.