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Prevent balance from hopping. Only recalculate the balance if the balance has changed, not if just the volume has changed. Because (at least with my soundcard) not all volume values can be stored, but seem to be mapped onto a discrete value set, recalculation the balance from the volume isn't accurate enough.

#!/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