[MPlayer-users] udp multicast quick start

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 03:49:21PM +0530, Mac Smith wrote:
> I am playing a udp multicast stream (mpeg2 transport stream) using the following command
> 
> mplayer -vo vdpau -vc ffmpeg12vdpau udp://239.1.1.1:1234
> 
> 
> It plays well but when it starts, it waits for 4-5 seconds after a message  "TS file format detected." I googled and found that adding a "-demuxer" option would solve the problem, so i added "-demuxer +mpegts", it improved only by 0.5 seconds, if i add "-demuxer mpeges" than its a very very quick start but the video is very very bad. 
> 
> It looks like mplayer checks something from the stream, how can i skip all this checks to do a quick play.

I think VDPAU can only start decoding at an I-frame, so you have to
reduce the I-frame interval at the encoder end.