[MPlayer-users] Re: Playing xcd image files

[Martin Collins]

On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 14:01:06 -0500
Jonathan Rogers <jonner at teegra.net> wrote:

> I've been playing around with mode2cdmaker and mplayer some more and
> had a very hard time getting the movie to play, either with cue://
> or vcd:// straight from the drive.
...
>It never has a problem when I specify -nocache, but the playback
> is jerky. When I use a cache value of greater than 2000 (for cue://)
> or 4000 (for vcd://), it becomes chaotically unreliable. Perhaps
> there's a timing bug or race condition?

You've reminded me of a tip someone gave me when I was first trying to
figure this out: use -ss. The optimum time to use varies between
discs; some don't need it at all, others need 5 minutes or more.

Martin