[MPlayer-users] zapping speed

[Nico Sabbi]

Il Wednesday 24 October 2007 02:26:31 Zoilo Gomez ha scritto:
> I am using vlc / udp multicasting to stream a couple of DVB
> satellite channels over my LAN, eg. "udp://224.224.2.34:1234"
>
> Using mplayer, it takes app. 5 seconds to change from one channel
> to the next.  How can I speed this up? And what is taking mplayer
> so long before it displays a picture?
>
> TIA,
>

possible tricks are: 
- don't use any cache
- use a lower -tsprobe (default is 2000000 but generally 256000 is 
enough)