[MPlayer-users] Re: weird problem with -demuxer lafv and mp4 files

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"Nick Koretsky" <nikita at public.ua.net> wrote in message 
news:20070410193253.34f7b15f at nikita...
> On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 15:17:45 +0200
> Nick Koretsky <nikita at public.ua.net> wrote:
>
>
>>
>> Recently i have seen people suggesting using -demuxer lafv as a 
>> workaround
>> for some mov/mp4 demuxer problems, but the problem is -demuxer lafv does
>> not work for me with mp4 files at all! Well, it does demux, but what i 
>> get
>> is 1-3 fps slideshow. This is only happening with -demuxer lavf and with
>> mp4 files...
>>
>
> I just solved this accidentally. And culprit is 'cache'! -nocache solves
> this issue completely. The trick is - even with cache and cache-min so big
> that entire file should fit in before decoding even start I still get a
> slideshow... So I start to think maybe there is something wrong with the 
> way
> cache works in mplayer....
>
>
> -- 
>  Nick Koretsky (nikita at public.ua.net)


Actually i have an idea about this.. I noticed recently after upding my own 
player's libavcodec, that the mp4 demuxer kept doing seeks on the input 
stream all the time. This could empty the cache, and wait for it to refill 
again.

/Joakim