mpv-player · guidocella · Nov 24, 2024 · Feb 3, 2025
diff --git a/DOCS/interface-changes/prefetch-playlist.txt b/DOCS/interface-changes/prefetch-playlist.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+change `--prefetch-playlist`'s default to `yes`
diff --git a/DOCS/man/options.rst b/DOCS/man/options.rst
@@ -4186,7 +4186,7 @@ Demuxer
 
 ``--prefetch-playlist=<yes|no>``
     Prefetch next playlist entry while playback of the current entry is ending
-    (default: no).
+    (default: yes).
 
     This does not prefill the cache with the video data of the next URL.
     Prefetching video data is supported only for the current playlist entry,
@@ -4197,16 +4197,10 @@ Demuxer
     This does **not** work with URLs resolved by the ``youtube-dl`` wrapper,
     and it won't.
 
-    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

diff --git a/options/options.c b/options/options.c
@@ -996,6 +996,7 @@ static const struct MPOpts mp_default_opts = {
     .demuxer_thread = true,
     .demux_termination_timeout = 0.1,
     .hls_bitrate = INT_MAX,
+    .prefetch_open = true,
     .cache_pause = true,
     .cache_pause_wait = 1.0,
     .ab_loop = {MP_NOPTS_VALUE, MP_NOPTS_VALUE},
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		change `--prefetch-playlist`'s default to `yes`