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diff --git a/DOCS/man/options.rst b/DOCS/man/options.rst index a812fb088c..079672533f 100644 --- a/DOCS/man/options.rst +++ b/DOCS/man/options.rst @@ -2737,6 +2737,27 @@ Demuxer (This value tends to be fuzzy, because many file formats don't store linear timestamps.) +``--prefetch-playlist=<yes|no>`` + Prefetch next playlist entry while playback of the current entry is ending + (default: no). This merely opens the URL of the next playlist entry as soon + as the current URL is fully read. + + This does **not** work with URLs resolved by the ``youtube-dl`` wrapper, + and it won't. + + This does not affect HLS (``.m3u8`` URLs) - HLS prefetching depends on the + demuxer cache settings and is on by default. + + This can give subtly wrong results if per-file options are used, or if + options are changed in the time window between prefetching start and next + file played. + + This can occasionally make wrong prefetching decisions. For example, it + can't predict whether you go backwards in the playlist, and assumes you + won't edit the playlist. + + Highly experimental. + ``--force-seekable=<yes|no>`` If the player thinks that the media is not seekable (e.g. playing from a pipe, or it's an http stream with a server that doesn't support range |