Re: [linux-audio-user] audio/video player for theatre use anyone?

From: Joern Nettingsmeier <nettings@email-addr-hidden-hochschule.de>
Date: Sat Mar 03 2007 - 21:38:45 EET

Lee Revell wrote:
> On 3/2/07, Joern Nettingsmeier <nettings@email-addr-hidden-hochschule.de> wrote:
>> as i said, it's absolutely not a problem if it supported only one or two
>> open, well-documented and generally sane video codecs. the most
>> important thing (i think) is the pre-buffering feature - tacking a nice
>> "instant play" user interface on a playlist-driven player wouldn't be
>> hard, but i don't know of any existing players that do buffering...
>>
>
> mplayer has the --cache option.

indeed. if i can convince mplayer to start, seed the cache and go into
pause mode until some external event comes in, then that'll be fine...
thanks for this idea!
Received on Sun Mar 4 00:15:02 2007

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