[MPlayer-users] mpeg files playback limitation

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Thursday, 28 July 2005 at 00:00, Kevin DeKorte wrote:
> I have noticed a problem with the mpeg decoder
> 
> if I do this...
> 
> wget http://some.site.com/path/to/file.mpeg &
> 
> wait a second so that part of the file is downloaded then I do
> 
> mplayer -cache 2048 file.mpeg
> 
> 
> mplayer will only play the bytes of the file that it knew about when it 
> started.
> 
> So if 500K of the file was downloaded and mplayer is started, but the file is 
> 2MB, it will only play 500K even if more than 500K has been downloaded
> 
> It happens with mp3 and mpeg files, but works fine with avi, quicktime and 
> other formats.

Try playing the file directly from the URL or use
tail -f file | mplayer -nocache -

R.

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