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

[Dennis New]

On Sat, 27 Apr 2013 17:25:36 +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> 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.

That worked! Thanks!


> > 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.