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diff --git a/DOCS/man/options.rst b/DOCS/man/options.rst index b6b08d7d6e..d67d93c592 100644 --- a/DOCS/man/options.rst +++ b/DOCS/man/options.rst @@ -428,6 +428,31 @@ OPTIONS on the situation, either of these might be slower than the other method. This option allows control over this. +``--cache-file=<path>`` + Create a cache file on the filesystem with the given name. The file is + always overwritten. When the general cache is enabled, this file cache + will be used to store whatever is read from the source stream. + + This will always overwrite the cache file, and you can't use an existing + cache file to resume playback of a stream. (Technically, mpv wouldn't + even know which blocks in the file are valid and which not.) + + The resulting file will not necessarily contain all data of the source + stream. For example, if you seek, the parts that were skipped over are + never read and consequently are not written to the cache. The skipped over + parts are filled with zeros. This means that the cache file doesn't + necessarily correspond to a full download of the source stream. + + Both of these issues could be improved if there is any user interest. + + Also see ``--cache-file-size``. + +``--cache-file-size=<kBytes>`` + Maximum size of the file created with ``--cache-file``. For read accesses + above this size, the cache is simply not used. + + (Default: 1048576, 1 GB.) + ``--cdda-...`` These options can be used to tune the CD Audio reading feature of mpv. |