[MPlayer-users] -slave: how to set another stream-url, while mplayer is trying to contact the previous one?

[Roman Haefeli]

hi all

i am working on a setup, where i use mplayer as a backend to be
controlled by another software over a fifo. the aim is to let mplayer
play some webstreams. the problem i encounter is, that mplayer only
responds on a new 'loadfile <some_url>' input, when it is actually
playing a stream, but not when it is still trying to contact the
previous stream server. let's say the streamserver doesn't respond for a
while and i would like to try another url, i have to wait until mplayer
decides, that the stream is not available. is there some way to make
'loadfile <some_url/file>' work immediately, even if the remote server
of the previous url is not responding? or are there any workarounds
(probably without having to quit mplayer in such a situation, which
works, but is definitely a bad hack)?

roman
 


	
		
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