[MPlayer-users] -cache problems ( 'Cache not filling' OR 'Cache not responding!' errors)

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Reimar Döffinger
<Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 12:01:09PM -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Reimar Döffinger
>> <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 11:38:33AM -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
>> >> OK, so are you saying that there was no change in behavior with
>> >> respect to caching between the old(er) version of mplayer that I was
>> >> using, and the new version, other than these messages?  Seems odd that
>> >> I don't get the stuttering with the older version, but with the newer
>> >> version.
>> >
>> > Do you maybe get a "Invalid seek to negative position ffffffffffffffff!"
>> > message at the start?
>> > I think those might have completely broken -cache-min and seem to have
>> > disappeared lately again, so if that happens you might want to update.
>>
>> No, I don't think I was ever seeing that type of message.  However,
>> now that I knew which column in the output corresponded to the cache
>> fill, I noticed that it was nearly always at 50%.  The other messages
>> that I was seeing only occurred when first starting mplayer (in the
>> initial output).  When I have some time, I'll try updating to the
>> latest subversion snapshot to see if the behavior is any different.
>
> If not, and if you see the cache amount falling way down far below
> cache-min despite having a large cache that probably means the MPlayer
> cache has trouble with the file.
> This happens most with mov/mp4 files where it has to read the index
> all the way at the end, and then has to move again to the beginning to start
> playing. If it happens with other files I'd be interested to hear about
> it since it's probably a bug and fixable.

Most of what I'm watching are 'mkv' files, with the remainder 'avi'.
I'm not sure if either of them falls into the mov/mp4 category?