Re: [Mplayerplug-in-devel] nomediacache problem

[Peter L. <pet...@li...>]

kevin wrote:
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> Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 14:11:51 -0600
> From: Kevin DeKorte <kde...@ya...>
> Subject: Re: [Mplayerplug-in-devel] nomediacache problem
> To: mplayerplug-in developers
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> Peter Leese wrote:
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>> Set nomediacache=1 in my mplayerplug-in.conf, went to plugger test site 
>> (http://fredrik.hubbe.net/plugger/test.html) and selected the QuickTime 
>> movie (old codec) and nothing played, just said 'stopped' and I get the 
>> "busy" cursor so investigated further...
>>
>> When looking through the debug trace it looks like mplayer fails because 
>> it is not being passed the correct URL i.e. 
>> http://fredrik.hubbe.net/plugger/test.mov.
>>
>> I'm using fedora core 5 with all updates as 20 July
>> Mplayer 1.0pre8-4.11
>> Mplayerplug-in daily tar.gz as of 20 July
>> firefox 1.5.0.4-1.2.fc5
>>
>>     
>
> DO NOT USE nomediacache=1 unless you are using file shares... ie SMB or
> NFS mounts. It will cause problems, especially with older QT files as
> the metadata about the file is located at the end of the file and
> mplayer won't be able to seek to it, and read it.
>
> Kevin
>
>   
OK understand, I only tried it out because my son was complaining that 
the buffering takes too long (not a criticism from me you understand). 
Now I understand why, I shall have to educate him in being patience.

Is there any chance you could update the configuration page on your 
website to warn others not to do this?
If you want I can always write a patch file for the HTML of the 
configuration page and send it to you (assuming that you've construct 
the website pages using a tesxt editor)

regards Peter