[MPlayer-users] fine tunning Mplayer

[Marius Schaefer/Camberg/ISBAC]

Hi, 

mplayer-users-bounces at mplayerhq.hu wrote on 11.08.2004 10:38:40:
> Hi,
> 
> After spending hours setting up mplayer on my 1.8Ghz Athlon, I still 
> have problem with most of video, that aren't playing smooth. It's like 
> the player has a very short stop every seconds or so. It's tiny but very 

> noticeable in travelling sequences.
> It looks like a disk access that is annoying the video to play.
> I tried to change the cache, then the idx parameter. nothing.
> 

I once had a similar problem, I solved it by disabling USB in BIOS Setup 
or using other usb modules in my kernel.

> I found this url about fine tunning mplayer : 
> http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/747/
> But still, after trying autosync, mc, nothing seems to be usefull.
> 
> I'm using the debian package of mplayer on a knoppix release with 
> freevo. output driver is cvidix, audio is compiled alsa driver 1.0.5.
> Without freevo, and only from console, the problem is the same.
> 
> please, if anyone could point me some tips.
> thanks.
> Gis.

Marius Schäfer