Re: [xine-user] Buffering with xine

[Srikanth S. <sr...@te...>]

> > and everything works great except for one thing.  When xine first starts
> > playing, it "stutters" a little bit,  I'm guess this is because of the
hard disk
>  > access to load the  file.  After the initial  jerkiness, there are no
problems.
>  > So, is there a way to get xine to buffer  the stream on startup so that
I get
> >smooth playback?  Thanks!
>
> Actually, one of xine's strengths is that it does pre-buffer on
> startup and then works hard to stay ahead of the game, so to speak, during
> playback in order to mitigate any system bottlenecks. There may be
> something wrong with the timestamps in the MPEG-2 ES file. Does it play
> perfectly smoothly with some other app? Does this sync problem happen with
> any other ES file, or any other file type?

This problem does seem to happen with at least one other ES stream.  To be
honest,
I haven't tried it with another player except for a Windows based player
where it plays
fine (that PC is a much faster PC however).  Is there a way I can increase
the pre-buffer?

I'm using an EPIA M10000 which has a built-in VIA MPEG-2 hardware decoder.
Thanks.