[MPlayer-users] Re: Random pause while playback?

[Corey Hickey]

Jonathan Rogers wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> hotmail wrote:
> 
>>   I have tried "-cache 20000" and a bunch of other mplayer
>> commands without success on my VIA EPIA board. My hard disk
>> is a seagate IDE 80GB one and hdparm reports about 39MB/sec
>> in udma5 mode. -vo=xvidix
> 
> 
> Hmmmm, well, I'm at a loss too, then. I have seen MPlayer pause for 
> several seconds for no good reason, but only at the end or beginning of 
> a movie.
> 
> Jonathan Rogers
> 

Out of curiosity, do either of you get any errors in the system log?
$ tail -n 40 /var/log/messages
...and see if anything corresponds.

The only time I get bad playback (besides an overloaded/flaky network
connection) is sometimes when I play a DVD and get these errors:

---SNIP---
hdb: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdb: packet command error: error=0x54
ATAPI device hdb:
   Error: Illegal request -- (Sense key=0x05)
   Media region code is mismatched to logical unit -- (asc=0x6f, ascq=0x04)
   The failed "Report Key" packet command was:
   "a4 00 00 03 6c 59 00 00 00 0c c4 00 "
---SNIP---

I've never really known if that's a hardware or software problem,
though....

-Corey