[MPlayer-users] startup delay with mf://

[Dennis New]

Why does mplayer delay when starting certain forms of playback such as
with:

  mplayer mf://hi*jpg

Right after it says "Playing" and "Cache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)", it
will hang there for a few seconds. strace says it's doing this, a few
times a second, but I can't make out what exactly that means:

  select(1, [0], NULL, NULL, {0, 200000}) = 0 (Timeout)

Immediately before that was:

  mmap(NULL, 184, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0)
  mmap(NULL, 5120000, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS,
-1, 0) clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|
CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0x..

I'm currently using MPlayer 1.1-4.5.3.