--prefetch-playlist improves performance by starting to read the next
file in the last second or playback or while viewing an image. This is
obviously noticeable with playlists of direct media URLs, but can also
make a difference on local slow hardware, mainly large (in bytes) images
on HDDs. You can easily see the difference with 10+ MB images.
Since e7a253614c and 24db17d10f fixed niche issues, and it's known not
to cause other issues by users using since 2017 who haven't reported
issues, enable it by default to improve performance.
The only flaw is that it doesn't support ytdl-hook URLs, so in Youtube
playlist, it does a web request with ffmpeg that is doomed to fail since
the last second of playback, though this doesn't cause practical
disadvantages.
Guido Cella
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