From 1b283f6b60cce278aeb0c4fb675faac493546ab6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: wm4 Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2020 19:53:57 +0100 Subject: libarchive: some shitty hack to make opening slightly faster See manpage additions. The libarchive behavior mentioned in the last paragraph there is technically unrelated, but makes this new option mostly pointless. See: #7182 --- DOCS/man/options.rst | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) (limited to 'DOCS') diff --git a/DOCS/man/options.rst b/DOCS/man/options.rst index 9eaf2b2791..dcd68194c2 100644 --- a/DOCS/man/options.rst +++ b/DOCS/man/options.rst @@ -3458,6 +3458,18 @@ Demuxer after the initial caching. This option is useless if the file cannot be cached completely. +``--rar-list-all-volumes=`` + When opening multi-volume rar files, open all volumes to create a full list + of contained files (default: no). If disabled, only the archive entries + whose headers are located within the first volume are listed (and thus + played when opening a .rar file with mpv). Doing so speeds up opening, and + the typical idiotic use-case of playing uncompressed multi-volume rar files + that contain a single media file is made faster. + + Opening is still slow, because for unknown, idiotic, and unnecessary reasons + libarchive opens all volumes anyway when playing the main file, even though + mpv iterated no archive entries yet. + Input ----- -- cgit v1.2.3