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Lee Revell wrote:

> Ugh, because mplayer stupidly does disk i/o and AV playback and GUI in
> the same thread.  Insert Xine plug.

This is not a problem as long as all of them can be done totally async.  As soon 
as anything blocks, then there's an issue.

Chris