Sad news for all you users suffering from those random short pauses. I decided to build myth from the git sources and the pauses are still there :-( I must have mistakenly read, that it had been fixed. Environment: Git pulled Nov 1 Fedora 14 x86_64 AMD X4 965 Asus M4A77TD 4 gig DDR3 ram GeForce 6200 Driver nvidia-graphics280