[MPlayer-users] Segmented streaming and mplayer

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 11:33:54AM +0200, Kristian R. Evensen wrote:
> - The retrieval application writes the received data to stdout and the
> output is piped into mplayer. This also works, however, there is a gap
> between each segment here as well. The length of the gap is reduced by
> using -autosync 30, but it is still there. Without autosync, mplayer
> outputs the "Your computer is too slow ..." message and the audio
> plays in the background, while the video does not appear before after
> a long while and only a few frames are played.

Have you tried playing the concatenated file?
This sounds like your "segmented streaming code" simply generates broken
files, confusing MPlayer and thus causing a gap.