[MPlayer-users] Time needed to start playback

[Oliver Seitz]

> AFAICT from somewhat limited experience, the primary source of delay in
> this respect is filesystem read times - which is going to vary
> considerably depending on where on disk the file is stored and how
> recently it has been read (and thus whether or not it is buffered in
> memory).

That was a useful hint! Just reading the mplayer-binary sometimes took up
to 0.4s (measured by dd). Copying the binary to some tmpfs (ramdisk) and
loading it from there reduces the time to read to somewhat below 0.01s

> My understanding is that the font is needed for the OSD, for the
> "OSD:Enabled"/"OSD:Disabled" display if nothing else.

Oh, ok. I wouldn't mind if a disabled OSD didn't tell me to be disabled ;-)


> To override container detection, look at the '-demuxer' option. To
> override codec detection, look at the '-vc' and '-ac' options (or, for a
> little less precision, the '-vfm' and '-afm' options).

I'll try that later, thanks!

Kiste