[MPlayer-users] live streaming & playback problem

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 06:26:18PM +0100, Florian Iragne wrote:
> Is there a known problem with such live streams and mplayer? the
> only relevant info i can see in the log is that mplayer complains
> that the stream is not cacheable, when it seems that vlc is caching
> the stream at the begining.

RTSP sends audio and video separately, thus MPlayer cannot cache it
with its current cache design.
And that probably is what is causing your problems.
What _might_ work is if you record the stream with mencoder into a
file and then play that file.