[MPlayer-users] System pauses when replaying

[Geoffrey Leach]

Configuration. Host is a Puget Systems Echo I, built on the Intel 
DH77DF MB. It uses an Intel i7 3.1 GHz with 2 x Patriot Signature 
DDR3-1333 8GB. There is a 100MHz connection to a Silicon Dust dual 
tuner.

What's going on. While the tuner is decoding and downloading OTA TV and 
mplayer is replaying an MP4. the replay pauses for a second or so, 
repetitively. As far as I can tell, there's no loss of playback.

Environment is Fedora 17. There's nothing else going on, other than the 
gaggle of processes that come with the OS.

I'd be interested to hear speculation as to what might be going on.

Thanks.