[MPlayer-users] Re: CDDA Stuttering

[Robert Henney]

On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 04:45:57PM +0000, Simon Morgan wrote:
> Does anyone have any idea what might cause stuttery CD playback?
> 
> I've tried setting the playback speed to various values but it makes no 
> difference. CDs play fine under xine.

without setting a larger cache value, playing CDs has always been
stuttery in mplayer for me.  with a larger cache though (eg. -cache 2048) 
things play fine.

don't know why the default cache value isn't enough, but try it with
a larger cache value to see if it helps.