view TOOLS/mplmult.sh @ 35877:cc42d1d53695

Clean up ifdefs so they make sense even if none or multiple are defined. Also choose Linux as fallback case instead of failing, this allows the code to compile e.g. on Android.

#!/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