[MPlayer-users] option to save cache in temporary directory instead of memory

[houghi]

On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 03:35:51PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote:
> Why not let youtube-dl save the video?
> 
> youtube-dl http://... &
> mplayer GDE_p8ABTX8.mp4.part

This won't work if your download is not fast enough:
youtube-dl "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo36OOYf9cU" &
mplayer yo36OOYf9cU.video.part

This is a 2 minute video in a pretty high resolution. The download for me
is about 7 minutes. This means mplayer will get to the current end of the
file on the HD before youtube-dl has gotten the whole file.

So the problem has nothing to do with cache size. I could easily place
this in cache. It has to to with download speed.

This will work if your download speed is sufficient for the movie you are
downloading. If it is not, mplayer will exit as it does not know there
will more be coming its way.

houghi
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