[MPlayer-advusers] seeking thrashes cache and hammers server when playing movies from youtube, etc.

[Rich Felker]

hey guys,
whenever i use mplayer to stream a movie from youtube, the flv demuxer
seeks around multiple times during initialization, hammering the
server and forcing the cache to refill several times, resulting in at
least 30 seconds of delay before the movie actually plays. is there
any way around this?

perhaps we need an option to treat the input file as nonseekable even
if it is seekable (or flame whoever added http/ftp "seeking" to
mplayer!) or perhaps the flv demuxer just needs to be fixed...? (that
would be a lavf issue i suppose)

rich