[FFmpeg-user] [ffmpeg-users] How to suspend video file reading

[Roger Pack]

On 12/6/12, Quy Pham Sy <phamsyquybk at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My ffmpeg-based player plays a mpeg-ts file that downloaded from a server.
> I want my player be able to play the video file
> even when it is being downloaded.
>
> There is no problem if the download speed is faster than reading speed,
> otherwise, my player crashs.

more of a question for the libav-user mailing list, I suppose.
Anyway I'd suggest handling the crash and retrying (or is the crash a
bug in libav somehow?)