[MPlayer-users] Time needed to start playback

[Oliver Seitz]

Hi,

does anyone know which checks and tests take the most time in the delay
between starting mplayer and the actual start of the video playback?

There's no big delay, some tenths of a second, but I try to minimize it.

The videos do not contain subtitles and no GUI is needed, but mplayer
tries to load fonts. It might save time to skip that, but there seems to
be no means of telling mplayer not to load a font.

Automatic stream type detection is great, but would it save time to name a
certain file type?

Any other ideas?

Thanks.

Kiste