On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 04:43:23PM +1000, Murray Blakeman wrote: > >>Solaris 10u8 with CDE. Details of my mplayer build are below. > >Hm, maybe there's a bug specific to that, even though I can't > >really imagine it... > > > > Has there been any major changes that relate to the cache argument? > > It's strange that it works okay with a previous build. Yes, the cache now reacts far faster, which I suspect exposes some issues that were previously hidden. Can you try updating to r31371 and if that alone does not help try a few different value for -cache-seek-min ?