[MPlayer-users] why is -nocache default?

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 10:15:45PM +0300, yourself wrote:
> Hiya all!
> 
> I've been using mplayer for ages now and i really adore it. One thing 
> that recently caught my attention (mplayer started doing slight pauses 
> during playback and i was intrigued) is that at some point the -nocache 
> option is the default one instead of the old 2mb if I recall correctly? 
> It really is no problem for me specifying the cache in my config, but I 
> was just curious, why is -nocache the default instead of a small 2mb one?

1. -cache will make noninterleaved avi files take 10000% cpu to play.
2. -cache in generally makes mplayer slower unless you need it to
compensate for broken hardware or slow network.

rich