On Fri, 2010-01-01 at 20:06 +0200, Nezmer at allurelinux.org wrote: > I've been facing a weird issue with some mp4 files. The playback starts > to stutter(plays discontinuously as If CPU or IO is maxed out) at > a certain point. This happens with mplayer-mt linux x86_64 and with > mplayer in a 32bit chroot. Not all files suffer from this. The files > that do suffer at certain points. The files play just fine with ffplay > Totem(gstreamer) and VLC. > > Today I decided to save logs. > > With -msglevel all=5 > http://pastebin.com/f4bce5249 That log shows problems a lot worse than "stutter" - the status line values indicate a 18 second desync between video and audio due to playback being too slow! The problem is that you've specified -cache either on the command line or in config files. MPlayer's cache mechanism has problems with mp4/mov files because playing them involves a lot of seeking around in the file and the cache doesn't handle that well. Don't enable cache by default.
