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

[Andy Furniss]

Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 10:57:21PM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 01:52:21PM +0100, Andy Furniss wrote:
>>> Erik Auerswald wrote:
>>>> 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
>>>
>>> Me too, but if I save the stream with wget, mplayer will play the file OK
>>> (and display a logo).
>>
>> That seems suspicious. I think this might be due to us using different
>> default demuxers for Ogg, since the FFmpeg one (used to/does?) work
>> rather badly for streaming.
>> An explicit -demuxer lavf works.
>> Assuming your FFmpeg version that MPlayer uses is new enough.
>
> Starting with r37304 it should work (mostly?) without -demuxer lavf.

Oops, you are right - I wasn't up to date.

With updated svn both links work, though I only see the logo with 
-demuxer lavf.