[MPlayer-users] Disk usage in Mplayer and Mencoder

[Attila Kinali]

On Mon, 29 Apr 2002 11:39:36 +0200
"Jean-Louis Debert" <JLD at rsd-intl.com> wrote:


> I am wondering about seemingly high disk usage (the DVD, not the HD)
> whenever I use Mplayer or Mencoder with -dvd  (that is, directly
> from the DVD drive).
> What leads me to saying this is that dvd drive accesses (as shown by
> the LED on the device) seem to be pretty continuous with Mplayer/Mencoder
> (looks like about 3-4 accesses per second) whereas they are _much_ more 
> spaced (less than 1 access/sec) when reading the same dvd with ogle 
> under linux) or DVD station (under Windows).
> (this does not seem to be precise enough, but I don't quite know
> how to measure it accurately ...)

I guess mplayer gets smaller chunks of data than ogle or other progs.
As long as the speed is the same i wont worry about it.


			Attila Kinali

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