[MPlayer-users] occasional jitters

[Corey Hickey]

spot at draves.org wrote:
> every 5-20 seconds i get a slight stutter or hiccup in playback.
> there is no audio track in the file, and the machine has plenty of
> power (1 of 2 cores at 10-20%).  no other major apps running and i see
> the same problem even in the gnome failsafe terminal mode.  the
> machine is almost stock, the only configuration i did was putting in
> the nvidia X driver, enabling the RTC clock, and installing latest
> binary RPMs from greysector.  i have experienced similar problems on a
> number of configurations.
> 
> i am very interested in getting stable playback, or even just to hear
> an explanation of how to get a solid frame rate.  i would be happy to
> run without X if i could figure out how.  i tried installing the vidix
> rpm but then i just get no device found.
> 
> thanks for any help you can give me.  best, -spot

This is just a shot in the dark, but what happens if you use a cache?
For example:

mplayer file.avi -cache 2048

-Corey