[MPlayer-cygwin] Re: mplayer uses to much CPU on cygwin

[Sven Köhler]

> Yes, I also found that using -quiet made a huge difference for the 
> Cygwin MPlayer on Win98. Without it, a movie would play smoothly for a 
> few seconds, then pause for a few. It seems Win98 has great trouble with 
> console apps. Why are we not surprised? Actually, Cygwin apps seem to 
> perform far worse on Win98 than on NT or 2000. It may be that little 
> effort has been put into optimizing Cygwin on Win98, since the 
> developers mostly don't use it. Who can blame them? I only have Win98 
> installed for a couple of games that don't work fully on Wine.

I ignore all Win9x Products - they are not worth installing.
WinNT seems to be better, but perhaps cygwin should think about some 
buffered output - but i guess that's far more complicated than we might 
think.

An alternative could be using RXVT.exe which is a GUI terminal and might 
not have the problem that the "native" Win98 Console may have.