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leniviy

Member

Registered: 2009-05-23

Posts: 177

mplayer cache option greatly reduces performance

Hi. I needed a larger cache because I have some videos stored on another samba server and it's laggy.
I set options: cache=20000, cache-min=10 , and that helped to play those videos smoothly, but that caused all 1280x720 mp4 files stored on my local drive to lag and A/V desync with mplayer message:
**** Your system is too SLOW to play this!  ****

I tried cache values from 1000 to 80000, and they lag in any case. But without the option "cache" these videos play well.
Now I commented "cache" in config.

[default]
#cache=65536
#cache-min=10
ao=alsa
softvol=yes
subcp=enca:ru:cp1251
af=pan=2:1:0:0:1:1:0:0:1:0.5:0.5:1:1
ass=yes

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Arch 64, xfce4

x33a

Forum Fellow

Registered: 2009-08-15

Posts: 4,587

Re: mplayer cache option greatly reduces performance

you can use different config for your local usage.