mplayer sluggish with cache

drjimmy42 · Guru Joined: 03 Feb 2003 Posts: 512 Location: Nashua, NH

I have compiled mplayer myself MANY times because I've found it to be the best movie player around. One thing that I always noticed was that it would switch from movie to movie _really_ fast. Click on next, barely a flicker and the next clip was playing.

However, I just emerged mplayer 0.90_rc3 and I noticed something different. About a 1 second hiccup between movies. In the terminal where I started gmplayer where they have all those cool stats it says
Cache fill :

and then a % complete that goes up and then the movie starts.

What is that? Is this some feature that is in the ebuild by default that I was never using before? I don't really like it, but are there benefits to caching the movie? Is it buffering or something? What is the meaning of the universe? What is the fastest land mammal? Where are all my other socks?

Malakin · Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2003 4:25 am Post subject:

You can try disabling the cache "mplayer -nocache" and see what happens. Or adjusting the the size of the cache "mplayer -cache 8192"

I would of thought the cache was only useful when the media you were playing wasn't local.