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Remove a ColorFill that is not necessary since the surface it is used on has exactly the same size as the video image and the video will be copied into it before it is used the first time.
author reimar
date Mon, 24 Nov 2008 09:46:23 +0000
parents abd0a4e9daa0
children 998475fffe0c
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#!/bin/bash
# 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 $fifo_list"
  let i=$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