[MPlayer-users] Feature Request: LivePause/Timeshift
Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
gsbarbieri at yahoo.com.br
Mon May 12 19:39:25 CEST 2003
--- D Richard Felker III <dalias at aerifal.cx> escreveu:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read
> DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 10:37:46AM +0200, Rene Bartsch wrote:
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read
> DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > Hi,
> >
> > when you watch or listen a live-stream/live-tv there's often a
> situation
> > in which you need to pause (e.g. receiving a call or going onto the
> > potty, ...).
> >
> > MPlayer is missing a LivePause/timeshift-function here.
> >
> > The simpliest way would be to implement a secondary, disk-based
> cache.
> >
> > So you could e.g. set the command-line option -disk-cache=XXXXX,
> where
> > XXXXX at least should allow 2 GByte. When the primary, memory-based
> > cache ("-cache"-option) reaches 75 % all additional data should be
> > written into the secondary disk-cache.
> >
> > 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.
>
However you can use: mencoder | mplayer
Take a look at Freevo Mailing list
(http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=9200)
we're doing it using mp1e and mplayer patched with timeshift://
protocol and we use a sync program.
Gustavo
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