[MPlayer-users] There is no cache when playing m3u8 stream (hls-protocol)

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 08:29:44PM +0400, Goga777 wrote:
> Hello
> 
> but why I can't play this m3u8 stream ? 
> 
> $ mplayer -cache 1000 -cache-min 99 ffmpeg://http://webtv-aarh-8.stofa.dk/182_01.m3u8 -v

It works perfectly for me.

> MPlayer 1.1-4.8 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team

Though updating to SVN is highly recommended when you have issues
(and yes, it is high time for a new release).
As a workaround you can try to specify explicitly -demuxer lavf