On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 12:03:58PM -0800, Justin Smith wrote: > Hi all, > > I am using mplayer to play youtube videos on linux as the flash > performance is really really bad on Linux. One thing I miss is the > seeking feature for YouTube. I use mplayer to play hq/mp4 videos > through the script listed here: > http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=MPlayer_youtube_script > > But when I try to seek, it gives me audio codec errors. I have tried > seeking in VLC and it seems to be able to do that, but I prefer > mplayer and would like to see if anybody on the mailing list has a > solution for this or if we can borrow the patch from VLC that fixed > this issue ... I fear there are some bugs in MPlayer's http implementation. Try configuring MPlayer with --enable-protocol="http_protocol" (or maybe go all the way and use --enable-protocol="file_protocol pipe_protocol http_protocol rtmp_protocol tcp_protocol udp_protocol") and then add ffmpeg:// in front of the URL. I updated the page above to mention this and other things.
