diff -r 6620b7037407 -r 823dad73a2c2 gmyth-stream/server/0.3/plugins/transcoders/mencoder.py
--- a/gmyth-stream/server/0.3/plugins/transcoders/mencoder.py	Tue Jun 26 14:32:33 2007 +0100
+++ b/gmyth-stream/server/0.3/plugins/transcoders/mencoder.py	Sat Jun 30 14:16:59 2007 +0100
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@
 
 __all__ = ("TranscoderMencoder",)
 
+buffer_size = 1024 * 64
+
 class TranscoderMencoder(transcoder.Transcoder):
     """Transcoder class that implements a transcoder using Mencoder"""
     mencoder_path = utils.which("mencoder")
@@ -118,8 +120,6 @@
             self._arg_append(args, "-slang %s" % self.args["subtitle"])
             self._arg_append(args, "-subfps %s" % self.args["fps"])
 
-        self._arg_append(args, "-idx")
-        self._arg_append(args, "-cache 1024")
         self._arg_append(args, self._setup_audio())
         self._arg_append(args, self._setup_video())
 
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@
             try:
                 return open(self.args["outfile"])
             except:
-                os.write(stdw, _stdin.read(1024))
+                os.write(stdw, _stdin.read(buffer_size))
     # _check_opened_file
 
 
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@
 
         try:
             while self.proc and self.proc.poll() == None:
-                d = self.proc.stdout.read(1024)
+                d = self.proc.stdout.read(buffer_size)
                 outfd.write(d)
         except Exception, e:
             self.log.error(self.tid, "Error: %s" % e)