[MPlayer-users] "Cache not filling!" regularly causing problems...

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 05:20:20PM +0100, Manuel Reimer wrote:
> on many media formats, mplayer handles caching pretty well. I see a
> status on console and my frontend (gnome-mplayer) is able to
> visualize this information.
> 
> Unfortunately this isn't always the case. For some media formats,
> caching seems to fail.

You should describe the _exact_ problem, the message only means that
MPlayer has been waiting more than 100 ms without any data arriving.
That it takes more than this to receive data is not unusual when
your internet connection isn't so great, but MPlayer shouldn't
be waiting.
You should set -cache and/or -cache-min to larger values to avoid that.