[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Network synchronized playback using UDP

[Jason Holt]

> Well I'm not sure if anyone else has a use for such functionality, and
> it needs to touch central enough parts of the code that you can't just
> harmlessly add it there and forget about it.


Agreed, it should be considered carefully.  I'm using it for a monitor cave,
and apparently I'm not the first person to do that:

http://persephone.cps.unizar.es/~spd/cmplayer/

So it looks like there is a demand for some variation on this feature.

It could be implemented better, though exactly how depends on what your
> goals are (how general it should be about working with all files etc).


Thanks for pointing out those bugs.  I had wondered why my hack had some of
those odd behaviors (although it works just fine for my application
overall).  I'm willing to make improvements, but it sounds like you need to
decide whether you want the feature first.