[MPlayer-users] Feature Request: LivePause/Timeshift

D Richard Felker III dalias at aerifal.cx
Mon May 12 13:36:49 CEST 2003


On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 12:35:01PM +0200, Steffen Barszus wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Am Montag, 12. Mai 2003 11:58 schrieb D Richard Felker III:
> > > That method would allow fast, memory-based caching for short scenes and
> > > LivePause with the disk-cache.
> > >
> > > Any chance anyone will implement that?
> >
> > Very unlikely. It would need to write 18 megs per second, which is
> > pretty insane... What you really want in this situation is something
> > like a pvr, that encodes video and lets you watch it at the same time,
> > and the current mplayer framework does not do that.
> >
> > Rich
> 
> Does the cache in mplayer cache decoded video ? Since I guess Rene spoken 

No, of course not. But it sounded like Rene was talking about watching
tv, which is uncompressed to begin with.

Rich



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