[MPlayer-users] Streaming with mplayer

[Pawel Wiatr]

Hello !

Simply use -nocache opion

Pawel

On Tuesday 10 December 2002 13:28, Michael Flohr wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi all,
>
> mplayer is just great! It seems to play everything I have
> on hard disk, CD, or DVD. But I have a problem when
> streaming things from the Web. Whenever I try to do
> this, CPU usage goes up to 100% and mplayer attempts
> to fill an 8MB cache first. I don't mind the cache, but why
> this incredible CPU load? My internet connection is
> usually slow, so filling the cache takes a long time.
>
> It sometimes crashes (cannot allocate shared memory)
> with various signales in enable_cache, but that might
> be unrelated. It only occurs if I try to stream within
> mozilla using plugger-4.0 by sending the stuff as stdin
> to mplayer.
>
> I run SuSE 7.3 with 2.4.10-4GB kernel.
> Sorry if this is a dumb question, but I read the documentation,
> and even browsed through some part of the mailing archives
> without finding much help.
>
> Michael Flohr
>
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