[mythtv-users] Setting cache on Mplayer for live TV?

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Thu May 22 00:02:31 EDT 2003


On Wednesday 21 May 2003 10:19 pm, Jeff C wrote:
> Is there anyway I can pass in a -cache 8192 argument for Mplayer to use
> when I watch LiveTV with it on Myth?  That seems to smooth out my skipping
> issue.

MythTV does not use mplayer for any of the TV functionality, nor has it ever. 

You can mess around with the amount of data it prebuffers by modifying the 
CalcReadAheadThres() function in the  libs/libmythtv/RingBuffer.cpp file, 
though.

Isaac


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