[MPlayer-users] Cache empty, consider increasing -cache and/or -cache-min. [performance issue]

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 01:25:42PM +0200, Alexander Strasser wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> On 2014-10-23 23:22 +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 10:57:21PM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> > > On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 01:52:21PM +0100, Andy Furniss wrote:
> > > > Erik Auerswald wrote:
> > > > >Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > >On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 12:48:15PM +0100, Jim Cross wrote:
> > > > >>I have quite a few example audio streams that I can not get to play using
> > > > >>MPlayer, although the streams work in chrome's browser.
> > > > >>
> > > > >>As one example, I have tried the below 'playlist' file (or it's contents)
> > > > >>but get the further below (typical) output.
> > > > >>I have tried many options with and without -cache sizes together
> > > > >>with/without many -cache-min values.
> > > > >>
> > > > >>Could this be a bug (in the current version I'm using?) or is there another
> > > > >>option that can be applied to get the stream to start playing?:
> > > > >>
> > > > >>http://dir.xiph.org/listen/1467960/listen.m3u
> > > > >>http://ai-radio.org:8000/radio.opus
> > > > >
> > > > >I get the error message:
> > > > >
> > > > >   Ogg stream 0 is of an unknown type
> > > > 
> > > > Me too, but if I save the stream with wget, mplayer will play the file OK
> > > > (and display a logo).
> > > 
> > > That seems suspicious. I think this might be due to us using different
> > > default demuxers for Ogg, since the FFmpeg one (used to/does?) work
> > > rather badly for streaming.
> > > An explicit -demuxer lavf works.
> > > Assuming your FFmpeg version that MPlayer uses is new enough.
> > 
> > Starting with r37304 it should work (mostly?) without -demuxer lavf.
> 
>   Damn it! I should have read my emails before working hours to come
> up with this hack:

I did mostly the same. However your hack would not have been enough, it
only detects the stream but can't play it :)