[MPlayer-users] mplayer read from stdin thru ssh delay

[Keith McLaughlin]

Thanks. The -demuxer lavf flag works like a charm.

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 1:10 AM, Paul Arthur <flowerysong00 at yahoo.com>wrote:

> On 2008-08-14, Keith McLaughlin <keythree at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all. I'm using the following command to play mp3's over a network
> >
> > /usr/bin/ssh $ipaddress "find $musicdir -type f -wholename
> > \*$search_string\*.mp3 -exec cat '{}' \;" | mplayer - -cache 64 -v
> >
> > The problem I'm having, is it seem that mplayer has a very hard time to
> > determine the filetype that it is receiving through stdin. It only takes
> a
> > split second to read a local stream from stdin, but through ssh it takes
> > over a minute. Here is my output.
> >
> > Are there any flags that I can set to make mplayer try mp3lib first, or
> any
> > other way to speed up the process?
>
> '-demuxer lavf' or '-demuxer audiofile' and '-ac mp3' should help.
>
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Keith McLaughlin
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