[MPlayer-dev-eng] Is cache2 working?

[Arpi]

Hi,

> I tried to play a stream from the network: 
> mms://216.106.173.150/cinnow1299/wm8/lucky_town_t_300k.asf
> without prebuffering this is unwatchable, so I try to put the -cache 4
4kb is not enough...

> in mplayer command line and nothing happen. 
> I got the:
> CACHE_PRE_INIT: 0 [0] 0  pre:0  eof:0
> Cache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)

i think cache needs to be at least 4*buffersize big. it's ~8kb...

> but it stick like this for ever, I have to CTRL-C it to quit it
> and mplayer tell me that both processes were in open_stream
> 
> I was wondering if was doing something wrong in my network
> layer, but no, I gave a local file(not an URL) with the same cache option
> and same thing happened.
> 
> Any ideas?

-cache 4096

> BTW, I want to automatically turn on the caching for network stream 
> when I can compute a cache_size value from the stream. 
> To do that I have to remove the static for the stream_cache_size variable,
> is there a cleaner way to do that?
none

but i think it will conflict with new configplaytree, it doesn't like if we
modify an option's parameter from outside :(


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