[MPlayer-dev-eng] willing to pay for RTMP support

[Uoti Urpala]

On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 20:05 +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 01:55:03PM -0500, compn wrote:
> > should -demuxer lavf be default for all ffmpeg:// ?
> 
> No. This is only a hack to disable probing, because probing currently causes seeks
> which are handled very badly.
> The real issue is that MPlayer has quite a few checks for STREAMTYPE_STREAM and no
> fd, and then disables a lot of things like cache.
> I have no idea why, it only seems to break things for no reason at all.

Looking at the history and then related mailing list info, this mail
from Ross Finlayson looks like the reason:

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Ah yes, you're right!  Thanks for pointing this out.  The problem here is 
that the caching stuff works by calling "stream_read()", but RTP sessions 
don't have a 'stream' object behind them (because the data is coming in on 
datagram sockets, not from a file or a TCP connection).  So, the best fix 
for this will probably be to simply not allow the "-cache" option to be 
used on RTP streams.
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