[Mplayer-dvb] Playback probs

[Nico Sabbi]

Michael Collard wrote:

>On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 20:55, Nico Sabbi wrote:
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>>>So far I've changed the cache to 8192 and this has improved greatly.
>>>Still, I think that MPlayer should simply flush the buffers 
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>>at this point they are totally empty
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>>>and start
>>>again if this problem occurs. How hard would it be to add this
>>>capability do you think?
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>>>Regards
>>>Michael collard
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>>reinit the whole cache, demux and decoding pipeline (stream is already 
>>setup),
>>possible in the case of DVB (which does something similar whe you change 
>>channel)
>>but very ugly.
>>1-2 months ago a guy posted a patch (or a link to a site) that made 
>>mplayer sync to a
>>network clock; it could be used as base for  synchronizing to the PCR 
>>(right solution).
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>Is it actually possible to change channels on the fly with MPlayer?
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>Regards
>Michael Collard
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yes: h=next channel, k=prev channel, and especially you can use the OSD 
menu.
read DOCS/xml/en/video.xml for details.

    Nico