[FFmpeg-user] How do I make ffplay play without high latency?

[Jesse Gordon]

On 11/23/2012 12:51 PM, Nicolas George wrote:
> Le tridi 3 frimaire, an CCXXI, Jesse Gordon a écrit :
>> ffmpeg -i test.flv -f sdl -
> Yes, exactly.
>
>> (Didn't seem to work -- see below.)
>> [NULL @ 0x969e160] Requested output format 'sdl' is not a suitable output format
> This build of ffmpeg is not linked with SDL. You should try to build your
> own, that is not difficult and usually more efficient in the long run.

Yes, I've built ffmpeg many many times -- but my internet's a bit slow 
so git takes a little while, and then compile takes a little while, so 
sometimes I get lazy and go grab a static build when I want to know what 
the latest version is like :-)

Anyway, so I tried that command above with a fresh git from a couple or 
few days ago and it does play the video stream from the HTTP cam nicely 
but the delay is still about a quarter of a second, or maybe only a 
tenth of a second longer than mplayer -benchmark -- and mplayer adds 
about half a second of delay.

So I guess my quest for fast decoding is still on!

I guess my next question is how to remove the delay out of ffmpeg so it 
plays as fast/soon as it can.
There should be a call to a function I can comment out. I have a medium 
skill with C so if someone can point me in the right direction I should 
be able to figure it out.

Or is this the wrong mailing list to ask about source code specifics?

Thank you all very much,

Jesse