Hi,
I think I was the one who mentioned that trick. Yes, it works exactly the
way you describe it. It seems that mplayer doesn't stream the file. Instead
it measures the size upon startup and only plays till he reaches that
position. I never fixed that issue, because my girlfriend and I perfectly came
along with that behaviour. In most cases, recording has already finished when
mplayer stops in the middle and we can start it a second time and seek to
that position to watch the rest. Maybe you can fix it by passing the recording
on stdin to mplayer:
cat *.avi | mplayer -
This way mplayer can't measure the size of the file and has to assume a
stream.
Stephan
On Friday 04 November 2005 16:12, Alberto Hernando wrote:
> Some time ago, while talking about timeshifting, somebody said that what he
> did was start recording the show he wanted to watch. Then, instead of
> watching it with tv, he saw the recording, having timeshifting this way.
> I've tried it. In some cases, the playback ends as if it wasn't being
> recorded anymore. I mean, you start playback 10 seconds after you start
> recording, and you can see only 10 seconds. Start again, and you have only
> 20 seconds, and so on. Other times, it works, and I can see all the show,
> as it is being recorded. What is happening? Should it always work, or is
> there some trick I'm missing? Perhaps some buffer issue? Does anybody else
> do this?
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