view TOOLS/mplmult.sh @ 36084:64825e4a3fed

Remove pointless code. The URL dialog widget will be destroyed after a selection has been made, and urlEntries will be freed and rebuilt every time the URL dialog widget is created (newly). So it makes no sense to prepend any data to the GList that never will be used.

#!/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 $fifo_list; do
  # -benchmark is necessary so that it will not do any timing.
  # the master instance already takes care of it and not specifying
  # it will break A-V sync.
  # -demuxer y4m is necessary because otherwise excessive probing
  # (probably by # the lavf demuxer) causes a long delay.
  mplayer -nocache -quiet -benchmark -demuxer y4m "$fifo" > /dev/null 2>&1 &
done
mplayer -nocache -fixed-vo -vo yuv4mpeg:file=$dir/stream.yuv "$@"

rm -rf $dir