[MPlayer-users] Streams intermittently play or don't?

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 03:19:20PM +0200, wm4 wrote:
> You should use mime-type mapping
> of formats to demuxers to stop libavformat to spend megabytes of data on
> probing.

Btw. while I kind of agree on the "should", the probing generally
hasn't been an issue.
It definitely isn't for Ogg, it is reliably detected with MPlayer's
minimum buffer of 2 kB.