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Clarify the used opening modes by improving the verbose status messages. By now, the (only) message indicates that the device is always opened in blocking mode, regardless of the "block" suboption to the ALSA output driver.

#!/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