Further update...
I turned on debugging to mozplugger and added a timestamp to the debug
routine and here's what happened...
PID3097: 1141880606 Same.
PID3097: 1141880606 Checking command: mplayer -really-quiet -nojoystick
-nofs -zoom -vo xv,x11 -ao esd,alsa,oss,arts,null -osdlevel 0 -xy $width
-wid $window "$file" </dev/null
PID3097: 1141880606 Match found!
PID3097: 1141880606 Command found.
PID3097: 1141880608 StreamAsFile
PID3097: 1141880608 NEW_CHILD(/ramdisk/media/1132199391.mov)
PID3097: 1141880608 >>>>>>>>Forking<<<<<<<<,
So this mysterious 2 second delay between clicking on the link to the
movie and having it play the movie is indeed within the plugin system I
was using.
On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Grant Parnell - EverythingLinux wrote:
I have a need to improve the time taken to launch a video presentation from a
web browser in the short term.
The 100MB video file is local (ie on the hard drive of the machine running
the browser. In fact I've tried putting a smaller 20MB video, the mplayer
app, it's libraries, the plugin manager and it's libraries and the html all
in a ramdisk.
The sort of response I'm getting is after clicking the link to the video it's
taking about 1 to 2 seconds to kick in. I am not sure if it's the browser
itself or the plugin manager causing the delay, but if I replace mplaer with
a shell script that logs the command line parameters the delay is between
clicking the URL and the log entry appearing. Running mplayer directly gives
excellent response, ie before the enter key lifts up.
I've tried a few browsers and tried to try a few plugin managers with varying
success (ie got it to run or didn't). It looks like the common theme is it
seems to want to buffer the video when it probably shouldn't.
Of course the long term plan would probably be to have somebody code up
something that'll call mplayer or flashplayer or render a web page on cue.
I've heard gstreamer might be able to do something like this but so far I
thought it was used to process video, not display it. Also not sure if
annodex could be used here - the presentations could be re-encoded.
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