Re: Movies get stuck and/or repeat frames

Kevin DeKorte wrote:
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> Rodrigo Castro wrote:
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>> I am using MPlayer-plugin 3.40r1 and I have a problem playing some 
>> movies, like Apple's trailers [1]. They either repeat some frames and 
>> freeze after playing a few seconds (like one or two). Downloading the 
>> movie and playing with mplayer (command-line) works fine, without any of 
>> these problems. However, mplayer displays a lot of "Error while decoding 
>> frame!" messages, as you will be able to see below.
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>> Please let me know if you need any further information.
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>> [1] http://www.apple.com/trailers/magnolia/districtb13/hd/
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> My first recommendation would be to increase your cache size. 4096K
> should do nicely for DSL/Cable make it more if you have a slower connection.
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It doesn't help. I have a DSL connection and increased cache up to 
32000K, but it still fails to play. The main problem is that it gets 
stuck at repeating some frames.

Thanks,
Rodrigo

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