[MPlayer-dev-eng] Question about A/V synchronization.

[Corey Hickey]

Attila Kinali wrote:
> Oh right. I forgot that. But anyways. Has anyone else noticed
> that MPlayer sometimes seems to jump a bit? I don't know what
> is causing it, it's seldom, but can be very annoying at times.
> I only see an jump in A-V, and then it normalizes, no other
> process eating up time or so, just MPlayer.

Do you see a momentary freeze of the video as well? That happens to me 
sometimes when I have a moderate amount of disk I/O; using -cache 
<something> fixes it.

Try running dstat all the time so that you can look back right after a 
"hiccup" and see if there's any activity that got logged.

-Corey