[MPlayer-users] DVD playback jerks

Arpi arpi at thot.banki.hu
Sun Nov 4 13:51:21 CET 2001


Hi,

> a few days ago I wrote that the DVD playback using mplayer jerks while it 
> works fine under windows. Somebody told me to use the CVS version and test 
> the cache option. But I found an easier solution because my second drive, the 
> CD burner can also read DVD's and has an internal 4MB buffer. I tried playing 
> a DVD using this drive and it worked fine.
> 
> It seems that the speed of the drive is not really important because my CD 
> burner can read DVD with 4x speed and the "real" DVD drive can read with 
> 8x-10x speed. But the burner has got a large buffer and that seems to be the 
> important part.
> 
> I'm sure that this problem can be fixed by using a program internal buffer in 
> the next versions.
it is the -cache option i told you...


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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