13 Dec
2007
13 Dec
'07
3:26 a.m.
Ken Restivo <ken(a)restivo.org>rg>, on Tue Nov 27, 2007 [02:17:52 PM] said:
The developer of the shell-fm software just gave me a
clue as to why it is so painful to try to play anything through stdin with mplayer:
apparently mplayer does aggressive caching and won't start playing until it gets some
large amount of input first.
shell-fm has an "extern" function that'll fork off a process to play
through an external player, but it won't work because mplayer is expecting to grab
quite a bit of the stream.
-ken
Hi;
mplayer has an option to turn off caching. (-nocache) Not sure
if that will help you. (sometimes it seems like mplayer has an option
for everything...)
Paul
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