[MPlayer-users] quicktime RLE encoding

[RC]

On Sun, 05 Nov 2006 17:51:02 -0500
Morris Beverly <morrisb at avpresentations.com> wrote:

> Is there any limit to the size of the -cache setting, other than
> system  memory?

Looks like it's limited to 1GB.  No idea if that is just arbitrary...

I recomend trying -nocache first.

> Unfortunately I can't depend on being able to play it all the way
> through once before  the actual use.

"cat file.avi > /dev/null" should cache it into RAM as quickly as the
disk will allow.