Hi! First of all, thanks to the developers for providing this cool piece of software :-) I have a SuSE 8.1 box on a PIII with 850mhz and 1024 MB RAM. I installed MPlayer 0.90rc4 and the latest libs and codecs from the mplayerhq website. When listening to mp3/asf streams or viewing divx/mpeg movies, I've found this problem: mplayer stops every 20-30 seconds for a short moment (1/10 seconds or so) and then continues with playback. Also the scrolling text in the panel stops for this short moment. I tried starting mplayer with different options and settings with no luck. I also tried other players, avifile/aviplay (plays very smoothly), noatun, xmms and realplay. They all have no problems, so I guess, it's mplayer specific. Any hint how to improve mplayers playback quality will be gratfully appreciated. Thanks, Benjamin