USB-HDD video playback sometimes pauses to fill Cache Buffer with V0.7 Previously didn't

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What steps will reproduce the problem?

It isn't exactly reproducible, in fact it seems more random. In fact,
playing medium/high quality DVX streams from USB-HDD, sometimes happens
that Mplayer does some consecutive "pause-cache refill-resume" bursts,
bursts that can continue even for some minutes... then the playback resumes
normally for maybe half an hour then some bursts again...

It does not happen on medium/low quality streams.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
I'm experiencing this problems since V0.7 of MplayerCE. My Wii has System
4.0 installed and I'm running MPlayerCE from Homebrew Channell.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by erikba...@gmail.com on 15 Jul 2009 at 10:24

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I've done some other tests... it definitely occurrs with long streams (>1H) of
Medium-High quality. If the bursts continue for more than a minute then the 
video and
audio desynchronize, usually having the audio being played half second too late.

I'm going to make some comparative tests with older versions of MPlayerCE if I 
have
time, then I'll report here again.

Original comment by erikba...@gmail.com on 28 Jul 2009 at 8:55

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I'm right now watching a full movie with OSD enabled.
For most of the time Cache fill is steady at 74%-71%. 
Then suddenly it starts to drop (one of the two times it occurred this evening 
it was
during a scene with lots of motion on screen: flames running everywere at high 
rates)
and when reaches 0 the buffering bursts start until cache manages to keep up 
filling
up to 71%-74% then it continues until next cache drop, but with unsynchrinized 
audio.

Original comment by erikba...@gmail.com on 29 Jul 2009 at 6:49

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I've tested the same movie with version 0.62 of MPlayerCE. 
The movie plays flawlessly for 90% of it's length issuing some heavy frameskip 
in
just one of the three points where version 0.7 issues heavy re-caching. But 
even then
it has no audio desyncr.

So all in all version 0.7 seems to have something slightly wrong in handling 
caching
or some very similar problem.

Original comment by erikba...@gmail.com on 31 Jul 2009 at 6:36

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I have similar problems. With AVI-files bigger than 300MB there's some 
disruptive
cache-bursting going on. Smaller files seem to work fine.

Original comment by panzerlu...@gmail.com on 8 Aug 2009 at 10:10

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I've tryed yesterday one of the movies that hanged version 0.62 and version 0.7 
with
version 0.75 and it worked flawlessly!
I just recommend anyone to install version 0.75 as it is solving lots of
caching/memory handling bugs as it seems.

I'll keep eyes opened for other hangs but that movie was very heavy and I'm 
confident
other movies will play correctly aswell.

Original comment by erikba...@gmail.com on 31 Aug 2009 at 2:49