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Posted: **25 Apr 2009 22:45**

Heyas. I'm not seeing behaviour as expected with caching in the moz plugin. I'm using 9.9a from the ubuntu repository. When I run vlc from the command line with:

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vlc --http-caching=10000 http://cap:2080/live/stream

(content-type: video/mpeg) it buffers for 10s and plays flawlessly, even over the occasional wifi hiccup. When I try to reproduce the same behaviour with the moz plugin via:

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var vlc = document.getElementById("vlc");
var options=new Array(
          ':http-caching=20000'
 );
vlc.playlist.add('/live/stream', null, options );
vlc.playlist.play();

or

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var vlc = document.getElementById("vlc");
vlc.playlist.add('http://cap:2080/live/stream', 'Live Stream', 'http-caching=20000');
vlc.playlist.play();

or

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var vlc = document.getElementById("vlc");
vlc.playlist.add('http://cap:2080/live/stream', 'Live Stream', ':http-caching=20000');
vlc.playlist.play();

I don't see similar buffering happening. By inspecting the state I see the same split-second buffering as if it were not being passed http-caching at all.

Is there an alternate way to specify the http-caching option to the plugin? Has anyone had success with http-caching and the moz plugin?

Thanks!

Posted: **26 Apr 2009 12:23**

"options" don't work in v0.9.9, only in 0.9.8a and previous...
viewtopic.php?f=16&t=58451

Posted: **26 Apr 2009 22:43**

Well, that sucks. I hope it comes back, 'cause functionality is useful.

Thanks for the reply.

For those who might stumble on this, I found some older .deb's here, but issues with dep's, so it's off to mplayer-plugin for me.

Posted: **27 Apr 2009 14:17**

All option are not denied. In fact, allowed options have now to be explicitely tagged as safe to be usable and as there are many many options, time is needed to flag some more option from time to time.
I think http-cache is safe, I proposed a patch on the mailing list for *-cache options. Maybe it will be ok in next releases.

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