[MPlayer-users] Re: BUG - Garbled output playing realaudio

[Ergzay]

On 2005/10/16, at 3:40, Bryan Alton wrote:
>
>>
>> If large gaps of 15-25 secs occur, then the cache is likely to be 
>> depleted
>> by the time packets are inserted and the audio stream will break up. 
>> In
>> these circumstance the patch will close Mplayer down with an EOF if 
>> the
>> cache stays at 0% for about 10 seconds.  This will force users to 
>> restart
>> rather than wait and hope that the stream may build up the cache and
>> stabilise which can't happen with a real-time live stream.
>
> This behaviour doesn't work when Mplayer output is piped to another 
> process
> or outputs to a file. In these circumstances cache goes to 0% and more 
> or
> less stays at zero since the output device can accept data faster than 
> the
> real stream supplies it.
>
> Therefore I am removing this piece of code.  The attached patch has the
> offending code removed.

This entire discussion should really be moved to mplayer-dev as no 
developers will see your patches on mplayer-users. So, I guess just 
repost this patch in devel describing what it does etc.

Ergzay