[MPlayer-users] Jumpy dvd playback with alsa9

[Corey Hickey]

David Eduardo Gomez Noguera wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> It has happened some times after a few minutes of playback, with an
> output line like this
> 
> alsa-play: xrun of at least 24.417 msecs. resetting stream  7%  2.2% 26
> 0 0%
> 
> I am running it with this line
>  mplayer -ao alsa9 -channels 6 -sid 0 -aid 128 -v -double
> -stop_xscreensaver  -vf pp=lb dvd://1
> 
> the processor never seems to be heavily loaded, except a small peak when
> that message is printed, and Im running on a P4 at 2.5 Ghz with 512 Mb
> of ram and an MX440 nvidia AGP4x with  64 Mb with the nvidia drivers on
> a 2.6 kernel, running gnome2 and alsa-lib 0.9.7-1 (fedora core 1).
> 
> Any idea or suggestion of why that happens?
> 
> 

One other thought, have you tried with a larger cache? Use -cache 8192
and see if you still have that problem.

-Corey