On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 01:51:33AM +1000, Petr Janda wrote: > By the way, it seems that the reason Xine is so slow is that it uses a > lot of CPU just after start (no movie playing) > > 876 petr 230 0 59660K 53652K RUN 0:21 136.72% 97.61% xine Can you ktrace the process and see what syscalls it is executing? I suspect another threading issue. Joerg