[MPlayer-users] Cache not filling! with usb fm tuner

[Максим Чверткин]

Well.. As you said I have high CPU usage (>70%). This isnt annoying because I have 1 mplayer process running. But I plan to use few processes to record stream from few tuners. So I think It will be a problem...


06.09.10, 23:53, "Reimar Döffinger" :

> On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 11:33:48PM +0400, Максим Чверткин wrote:
>  > Im trying to capture and write to file wav stream from my SiLabs usb fm tuner. According to http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/video4linux/si470x.txt (Audio Listing section) i do:
>  > 
>  > mplayer -radio adevice=hw=1.0:arate=96000 -rawaudio rate=96000 radio://89.5/capture -nocache -ao pcm:file=mgps.wav
>  > 
>  > Output file called "mgps.wav" seems to be good. It plays without any comments in any player that I have. But I get strange "Cache not filling!" every few seconds after running mplayer. I tried to use "-cache" with variable values (from 100 to 10000) instead of "-nocache" but nothing changes.
>  
>  If there's no problem you don't have to worry.
>  The message is mostly for debug purposes, e.g. if the cache process crashed.
>  It only means that MPlayer is waiting a long time (> 100 ms) for more data to come in.
>  If you get it a lot it might cause things like A-V sync, unnecessarily high
>  CPU usage and things like that, but as said unless you see an actual issue
>  you don't have to worry about it.
>  I can't see why/how that message could appear with -nocache though...
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