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Fix segmentation fault. In case a subtitle codepage or subtitle font encoding is given that does not match any of the encodings the GUI knows about, the preferences dialog crashes.
author ib
date Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:32:03 +0000
parents 998475fffe0c
children 7bdb1c022122
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#!/bin/sh
# example how to output video on multiple windows in sync.
# might be even more useful in combination with vo ggi
# to distribute the video arbitrarily

dir=/tmp/$$
count=$1
shift

if test 0"$count" -lt 1; then
  echo "At least 1 slave instance must be used."
  echo ""
  echo "Usage:"
  echo "./mplmult.sh n mplayer-opts"
  echo "n              number of MPlayer instances that display the video"
  echo "mplayer-opts   anything you would specify to mplayer,"
  echo "               more than one file will usually not work"
  exit 1
fi

mkdir -m 700 $dir
if test $? -ne 0; then
  echo "Could not create temp dir!"
  exit 1
fi

mkfifo $dir/stream.yuv
i=1
fifo_list=""
while test $i -le $count; do
  fifo_list="$dir/mp$i $fifo_list"
  i=$(($i+1))
done

mkfifo $fifo_list
(cat $dir/stream.yuv | tee $fifo_list > /dev/null ) &
for fifo in $fifo_list; do
  # -benchmark is neccessary so that it will not do any timing.
  # the master instance already takes care of it and not specifying
  # it will break A-V sync.
  mplayer -nocache -quiet -benchmark "$fifo" > /dev/null 2>&1 &
done
mplayer -nocache -fixed-vo -vo yuv4mpeg:file=$dir/stream.yuv "$@"

rm -rf $dir