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Good morning all! Is it possible to disable buffering when I use pause()? I'm using vlcj to run vlc. It would be fine if there is a possibility do disable/limit the buffering, so when I resume stream it will go live. This is on the client side, I stream video from IP cams.

Reduce the caching.

Hi Jean-Baptiste,

I have the same problem with an IP camera using rtsp access.
Pause / wait 5 second for exemple/ Resume.
does not continue in live, it resume at the time when the pause occured and not the current live time.

Which caching are you speaking about?
There are a lot.
I tried --rtsp-caching=0, which suppress the 2 second delai in live, but did'nt find the caching for staying live after pause / resume.

Best regards
Armand Bendanan

this is because of time-shifting.
I don"t think you can disable it.

Thanks for your reply.

This time-shifting function can in fact be very useful in some use cases.

In my case I still want to be in sync with the live video.
I can of course use pause, then: stop / play to achieve this function, but I will take some time.

In your opinion, is it possible to write a *video filter* which can have a function to suspend the video output? In my application, I will call this function of this filter in response to a pause/play command.

Can we easily insert a video filter in the video chain of VLC from an application and get a *kind of* pointer to this filter from the chain?

Is it the right way to achieve this function?

it would be simpler to add an option to disable time shifting.

it would be simpler to add an option to disable time shifting.

Please do, it would be very appreciated