[MPlayer-users] Playing a file being downloaded until the end

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:33:32AM +0200, Ilja Sekler wrote:
> Am 13.08.2012 23:14, schrieb Reimar Döffinger:
> 
> > On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 03:58:31PM +0200, Ilja Sekler wrote:
> > 
> >> Am 12.08.2012 20:04, schrieb Reimar Döffinger:
> >> 
> >>> See my reply in the thread "[PATCH] Fix the handling of growing
> >>> files" from March this year.
> >>> I'll attach the patch for convenience.
> >>> The thing I am lacking is people who will test it thoroughly,
> >>> because I don't really have time for that.
> >> 
> >> Was it intended to be
> >> 
> >> +        stream_control(demuxer->stream, STREAM_CTRL_GET_SIZE, &size);
> >> 
> >> instead of
> >> 
> >> +        stream_control(muxer->stream, STREAM_CTRL_GET_SIZE, &size)
> >> 
> >> in the libmpdemux/demux_lavf.c chunk of the attached patch?
> >> Otherwise the MPlayer compilation fails with
> > 
> > Yes, though just "stream" would do. [...] while I think that was the
> > only thing I fixed
> 
> Yes, this and the closing semicolon.
> 
> > it might be better to try the attached one instead.
> 
> No problems playing growing files beyond the transient end of the data
> at the moment as MPlayer was launched till the real EOF with the new
> patch, tested with a couple of mp4, flv (YouTube) and avi files while
> downloading them from the web, with and without '-demuxer lavf'. Seeking
> in the files I tested works fine too.

I committed it, I am not completely sure it works 100% in all cache
setups though.