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

[wm4]

On Sat, 25 Oct 2014 16:04:07 +0200
Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> wrote:

> 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.

It was an issue with AAC over shoutcast at least.