[MPlayer-users] mplayer stream playing - super slow start

Patrick White patrick at white.ca
Mon Feb 19 22:21:35 CET 2007


hi everyone. I am trying to figure this problem out however I am not
getting anywhere, as I can't figure out what the direct problem is, so
any help would be appreciated, i am trying to set up a video server so
i can stream my stuff to my other computers to watch.

The situation:

I am trying to play a udp stream coming over a LAN connection (from a
vlc server) and display it via mplayer, the encapsulation from vlc is
in Ts format, and the video encoding is h264.

The command i am using: (i used -nocache to see if it is a buffering
problem, no different than -cache 100kb or whatever).

$ mplayer udp://192.168.100.200:1234 -nocache


The Problem:

It takes approximatley 30 seconds to start the stream displaying, when
my CPU is a core 2 duo and 100 based LAN.

The command line outputs (i put them on pastebin so it is easier to read)

NON-verbose:

http://pastebin.ca/363984

verbose: (note in this one i edited it a bit to remove redundancy, in
the middle and end of the file, i noted these parts)

http://pastebin.ca/363985


so, what i am looking for would maybe be a way to ask mplayer not to
try and seek in the stream and other things to make the start up
faster?

thanks for any help,

Patrick



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