On Fri 25.06.2004 at 11:25:09AM -0400, Chris Griffiths wrote:
> > 
> > I am working on a streamdev-client plugin for Freevo to talk to 
> > streamdev-server of VDR.  Even without this I can watch TV from VDR 
> > through Freevo using mplayer and a URL for each channel.  The only 
> > problem here is slow channel switching because mplayer wants to buffer 
> > the new stream. 
> 
> Maybe I'm being too simplistic here, but won't a 'mplayer --nocache' or
> at least a very small cache stop mplayer from buffering?

>From my experience, mplayer -nocache dvb://whatever fails after some
time. -cache 1024 helped a lot. The problem is that it reads a bit of
the stream to detect what is in the stream (audio and video, subtitles
are dynamic).

Matthieu
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