[MPlayer-users] Why is mplayer ~2 sec. to skip to next movie with audio?

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 11:19:29PM +0200, Sandra Schlichting wrote:
> Dear readers,
> 
> When I play movies with audio and e.g. do
> 
> /usr/bin/mplayer 1.mkv 2.mkv
> 
> and press return while 1.mkv plays, then there is a 2-3 sec. delay
> before 2.mkv starts.
> 
> It only happens if the movies have audio in them.
> 
> If I use -nosound then the next movie starts right away.
> 
> Does anyone know how to avoid this start up delay?

Probably 1.mkv contains 1-2 seconds of extra (empty) audio.
You can detect that case e.g. by playback time still incrementing
at the end.
Or do you mean there's actually 1-2 seconds from when MPlayer prints
that it is done with 1.mkv before it starts with 2.mkv?