[MPlayer-dev-eng] APlayer - audio only player "heavily" based on mplayer

[Bertrand Baudet]

On Tuesday 12 November 2002 09:39 pm, Dirk wrote:
> A little program that turns MPlayer into a APlayer (probably one of the
> best audio players available :)
>
> the big advantage is that APlayer can be used with mozilla to d/l
> playlists from radiostations.. (couldn't get that to work with mplayer
> itself..) just a very, very simple piece of source that compiles with
>
> gcc aplayer.c -o aplayer
>
> blablabla... don't laugh at me.. the next time you'll be asked to turn
> MoviePlayer into a MediaPlayer you'll be thankful to give those ppl this
> in return.. :)


Actually I think it will be a good idea to get rid of the -playlist option.
Or keep it as a "force" like option. MPlayer should be able to autodetect
a playlist given as a filename without the -playlist option.
Why wasn't it done like this in the first place? If no particular reason,
would it be ok if I make the change?


Another note, I have seen several people suggestion using mplayer with the
-nocache option for playing internet radio. I have searched the user mailing
list for such subject but without any success.
Is there a problem with the cache when use with the network? I always let
mplayer compute the cache size for me and it always gave me good results.
(with shoutcast and wma)

Bertrand