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	marxian	2014-06-13 , 01:06
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Originally Posted by rotoflex

I'm not familiar with the internal differences of the players, but I have noticed that mplayer has issues with buffering that result in its abandoning a stream & going silent when taxed. I must use kmplayer, which must differ somehow, when reliability for not going silent is essential.

You can set the buffer size for mplayer with the 'cache' parameter, e.g

Code:

mplayer --cache=2048 $filename

This should help with any buffering issues. I don't know if KMPlayer changes the default buffer size when it uses the mplayer backend.

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