[MPlayer-users] Cache empty, consider increasing -cache and/or -cache-min. [performance issue]

[Erik Auerswald]

Hi,

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 12:48:15PM +0100, Jim Cross wrote:
> I have quite a few example audio streams that I can not get to play using
> MPlayer, although the streams work in chrome's browser.
> 
> As one example, I have tried the below 'playlist' file (or it's contents)
> but get the further below (typical) output.
> I have tried many options with and without -cache sizes together
> with/without many -cache-min values.
> 
> Could this be a bug (in the current version I'm using?) or is there another
> option that can be applied to get the stream to start playing?:
> 
> http://dir.xiph.org/listen/1467960/listen.m3u
> http://ai-radio.org:8000/radio.opus

I get the error message:

  Ogg stream 0 is of an unknown type

> $ mplayer -playlist http://dir.xiph.org/listen/1467960/listen.m3u
> Resolving dir.xiph.org for AF_INET...
> Connecting to server dir.xiph.org[140.211.15.194]: 80...
> 
> Cache size set to 320 KBytes
> MPlayer svn r34540 (Debian), built with gcc-4.6 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team
> 
> Playing http://ai-radio.org:8000/radio.opus.
> Resolving ai-radio.org for AF_INET...
> Connecting to server ai-radio.org[213.163.71.186]: 8000...
> 
> Name   : OPUS 64KB airadio - video game music & many other more...
> ai-radio.org
> Genre  : VideoGame DemoScene MOD Tracker KeyGen VGM Score Chiptunes 8bit
> 1bit Low-fi C64 VGRemix Video Game
> Website: http://ai-radio.org/?f=OPUS.64KB
> Public : yes
> Bitrate: 64000kbit/s
> Cache size set to 320 KBytes
> Cache fill: 19.59% (64208 bytes)
> 
> libavformat version 53.21.1 (external)
> Mismatching header version 53.19.0
> libavformat file format detected.
> [ogg @ 0xb642b990]Codec not found
> Cache empty, consider increasing -cache and/or -cache-min. [performance
> issue]
> Cache empty, consider increasing -cache and/or -cache-min. [performance
> issue]
> Cache empty, consider increasing -cache and/or -cache-min. [performance
> issue]

Full output for me:

$ ~/Software/mplayer/mplayer -playlist http://dir.xiph.org/listen/1467960/listen.m3u
Resolving dir.xiph.org for AF_INET6...

Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: dir.xiph.org
Resolving dir.xiph.org for AF_INET...
Connecting to server dir.xiph.org[140.211.15.194]: 80...

Cache size set to 320 KBytes
MPlayer SVN-r37293-4.8 (C) 2000-2014 MPlayer Team
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing http://ai-radio.org:8000/radio.opus.
Resolving ai-radio.org for AF_INET6...
Connecting to server ai-radio.org[2a00:1630:2:1004::1]: 8000...

Name   : OPUS 64KB airadio - video game music & many other more... ai-radio.org
Genre  : VideoGame DemoScene MOD Tracker KeyGen VGM Score Chiptunes 8bit 1bit Low-fi C64 VGRemix Video Game
Website: http://ai-radio.org/?f=OPUS.64KB
Public : yes
Bitrate: 64000kbit/s
Cache size set to 320 KBytes
Cache fill: 18.83% (61708 bytes)   

Ogg stream 0 is of an unknown type


Exiting... (End of file)

> OR:
> 
> $ mplayer http://ai-radio.org:8000/radio.opus
> MPlayer svn r34540 (Debian), built with gcc-4.6 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team
> 
> Playing http://ai-radio.org:8000/radio.opus.
> Resolving ai-radio.org for AF_INET...
> Connecting to server ai-radio.org[213.163.71.186]: 8000...
> 
> Name   : OPUS 64KB airadio - video game music & many other more...
> ai-radio.org
> Genre  : VideoGame DemoScene MOD Tracker KeyGen VGM Score Chiptunes 8bit
> 1bit Low-fi C64 VGRemix Video Game
> Website: http://ai-radio.org/?f=OPUS.64KB
> Public : yes
> Bitrate: 64000kbit/s
> Cache size set to 320 KBytes
> Cache fill: 18.86% (61813 bytes)
> 
> libavformat version 53.21.1 (external)
> Mismatching header version 53.19.0
> libavformat file format detected.
> [ogg @ 0xb646f990]Codec not found
> Cache empty, consider increasing -cache and/or -cache-min. [performance
> issue]
> Cache empty, consider increasing -cache and/or -cache-min. [performance
> issue]
> Cache empty, consider increasing -cache and/or -cache-min. [performance
> issue]
> Cache empty, consider increasing -cache and/or -cache-min. [performance
> issue]

Full output for me:

$ ~/Software/mplayer/mplayer http://ai-radio.org:8000/radio.opus
MPlayer SVN-r37293-4.8 (C) 2000-2014 MPlayer Team
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing http://ai-radio.org:8000/radio.opus.
Resolving ai-radio.org for AF_INET6...
Connecting to server ai-radio.org[2a00:1630:2:1004::1]: 8000...

Name   : OPUS 64KB airadio - video game music & many other more... ai-radio.org
Genre  : VideoGame DemoScene MOD Tracker KeyGen VGM Score Chiptunes 8bit 1bit Low-fi C64 VGRemix Video Game
Website: http://ai-radio.org/?f=OPUS.64KB
Public : yes
Bitrate: 64000kbit/s
Cache size set to 320 KBytes
Cache fill: 18.96% (62136 bytes)   

Ogg stream 0 is of an unknown type


Exiting... (End of file)

Thanks,
Erik
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