[MPlayer-users] Disk usage in Mplayer and Mencoder

[Philip Armstrong]

On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 11:24:35PM +0200, Attila Kinali wrote:
> > 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).
> 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.

What happens if you specify a nice big cache with "-cache 8192" say ?

Phil

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