[MPlayer-users] Font Config and DVD Seek question, thank you for everyones help so far! :-)

[Nico Sabbi]

Il Wednesday 05 December 2007 03:35:37 Sara Glade ha scritto:
> Hello,
>
> It has been greatly appreciated.
>
> Problem:
>
> Is there some command line switch to allow a file which cannot be
> 'seeked backward' the ability to do so thru buffering? Is this a
> way (sorry I am ruffling through lots of posts and trying to figure
> this out) for files that cannot be seeked backwards, I get the
> error message 'Cannot seek backward in linear streams".  Are they
> stuck this way? :-)
>

use the cache, but be aware that 
1) with the cache enabled many features of mplayer don't work
2) most likely the "can't seek back in linear stream" message is due
to some bug or something wrong in your command line.
How did you trigger it?