[MPlayer-users] Disk usage in Mplayer and Mencoder

[Arpi]

Hi,

> > 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.

yes.
and if he wants bigger chunks, just use -cache <chunksize>


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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