[MPlayer-users] startup delay with mf://

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 09:32:00AM -0400, Dennis New wrote:
> Why does mplayer delay when starting certain forms of playback such as
> with:
> 
>   mplayer mf://hi*jpg

As a first step, try with -nocache.

> Right after it says "Playing" and "Cache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)", it
> will hang there for a few seconds. strace says it's doing this, a few
> times a second, but I can't make out what exactly that means:
> 
>   select(1, [0], NULL, NULL, {0, 200000}) = 0 (Timeout)

One of the causes might be that it waits for the next frame to display.
One (admittedly unlikely) reason for that would be if it isn't able to
decode the first e.g. 50 images.