[MPlayer-dev-eng] force lavf demuxer for rtmp?

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 12:29:29AM -0700, Howard Chu wrote:
> It definitely starts up more slowly without that hack. The probe may
> only need 10 bytes, but it always reads 32KB to get started, and
> then somewhere down the line the demux seeks back to zero to
> actually do real work. One key problem with all this, which I've
> been trying to get attention on, is that everything in
> mplayer/ffmpeg operates on byte offsets, but RTMP only operates on
> timestamps. I hacked around this particular issue in one version of
> my patch by accepting seek(0), since we can also seek to timestamp 0
> in that case.

In this specific case, the real problem is reading 32 kB when much less might
be enough.
This particular issue is now fixed without any special hacks.