Thank you very much for the reply i will try this when i get home, although the system is a 4ghz i7 so it would be a little surprising. On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 8:44 PM, RC <cooleyr at gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:06:32 -0800 > Joshua Smith <bgcladd at gmail.com> wrote: > > > A straight file copy yields sustained 20mbit transfer rate. However, > > Mplayer will fill the min cache, quickly blow through the buffer and > > begin to lag. I see mplayer is only pulling down the file at about > > 300-600kB/s and wont fill the cache any faster. > > Run "top" while this is happening. Does CPU usage (User/Sys/Wait) time > go up to 100%, with ~0% idle? With encryption + network traffic + video > decoding, it wouldn't be hard at all to overwhelm your CPU, whether with > computation time, or just interrupts. > > -- > Ha. I'm the idiot. > _______________________________________________ > MPlayer-users mailing list > MPlayer-users at mplayerhq.hu > https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users >