[MPlayer-users] End-of-file and growing files

[RC]

On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 01:27:40 +0200
Tuure Laurinolli <tuure at laurinolli.net> wrote:

> It seems that when playing a growing gile, mplayer will stop at the 
> position which was end-of-file at the time the playing was started. 

No, not really.  This tends to be a problem with MPlayer having the
original EOF in it's cache.  Try running mplayer with "-nocache" or at
least a very small cache size, and you'll probably be able to avoid this
problem.