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<DIV><FONT face=MingLiu size=2>Dear Johathan:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=細明體 size=2> I have tried "-cache 20000" and a bunch of
other mplayer</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=細明體 size=2>commands without success on my VIA EPIA board. My
hard disk</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=細明體 size=2>is a seagate IDE 80GB one and hdparm reports about
39MB/sec</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=細明體 size=2>in udma5 mode. -vo=xvidix</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=細明體 size=2>I am quite in despair now...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=MingLiu size=2>Sincerely,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=細明體 size=2>Bob Cheng</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>> In my experience, if MPlayer needs all of the CPU time for playback,
<BR>> there aren't really pauses, but the playback just gets jerky. I would
<BR>> guess it's an IO throughput problem somewhere. The first thing is to
<BR>> make sure MPlayer is using a large enough buffer. Try "-cache 8192" if
<BR>> there isn't already a large buffer. Make sure DMA is enabled on the
<BR>> drive from you're playing. Try copying the movie or part of it to a
<BR>> faster drive<BR><BR>> I know very little about MPlayer internals,
since I'm just a user. One <BR>> of the developers may be able to give more
insight.<BR><BR>> Jonathan Rogers<BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>