Ken Restivo <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx>, 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 set@xxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
