Just got home and was able to take a look at cpu usage, according to htop it's only using about 18%. jnettop shows that the mplayer process is only pulling down 330Kb/s of bandwidth even during the initial pre-caching before playback even starts, and never goes above that during playback. On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 8:46 PM, Joshua Smith <bgcladd at gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> > >
