[MPlayer-users] option to save cache in temporary directory instead of memory

[Sezaru]

Hello, the tail solution almost did it for me, it works like a charm
when I want to seek foward the video, mplayer will simply stop and
waits the download to reach it's position.

But there is one problem which is if i want to seek back, let me say
I'm watching something and want go back 1 minute in the video, when I
press the left arrow button, mplayer will close.

As for the chopping issue, it depends in your situation, let me say
I'm watching a video which my bandwidth can download without a
problem, so no chopping issue, but then someone (or even me) starts
downloading another file, torrent or something like that, than my
video download rate will slow down and mplayer would catch up to it
and simply close it, which would be really frustrating.

Thanks

On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Nicolas George
<nicolas.george at normalesup.org> wrote:
> Le septidi 7 pluviôse, an CCXXI, houghi a écrit :
>> This won't work if your download is not fast enough:
>> youtube-dl "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo36OOYf9cU" &
>> mplayer yo36OOYf9cU.video.part
>>
>> This is a 2 minute video in a pretty high resolution. The download for me
>> is about 7 minutes. This means mplayer will get to the current end of the
>> file on the HD before youtube-dl has gotten the whole file.
>
> If that happens, you will get unbearably choppy playback anyway, unless you
> wait the whole file is (almost) fully downloaded, whatever the method used.
>
> You can emulate the "download | mplayer" behaviour using this:
>
> tail -f -c +0 yo36OOYf9cU.mp4.part | mplayer -
>
> But it will be choppy every time mplayer catches up with the download, that
> is unavoidable.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
>   Nicolas George
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