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

[Erik Auerswald]

Hi,

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 11:22:42PM +0200, 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:
> > > >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.

Yes, this works for the audio stream, but it does not open the video
stream. With -demuxer lavf, both streams work.

Perhaps the ogg support of -demuxer lavf has improved enough to be used as
default for ogg?

Thanks,
Erik
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