[MPlayer-users] High cpu while playing over stalled nfs connection

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 04:23:07PM -0400, Dennis Nezic wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 08:09:00 -0400, Dennis Nezic wrote:
> > When playing a video from a mounted nfs folder, if the nfs connection
> > stalls (say, hypothetically, if one has a crappy wifi connection :S),
> > mplayer cpu usage rockets to 100% during the stall -- probably because
> > it's constantly trying to fill the cache? (Perhaps a small delay
> > should be inserted somewhere?)
> 
> It doesn't do this with "-nocache". Please make the cache more
> forgiving/tolerant of bad connections :-).

Did you forget to tell use some details about your setup?
For example do you run MPlayer non-interactively?
I fixed such an issue in that case, but I can't reproduce
any such issue when running MPlayer normally.
You should always give the exact command-line/configuration you use.