[MPlayer-users] Playing multiple videos at the same time

[Nicolas DEVERGE]

Yes, you can play several instances of mplayer.
Actually, I reached 8 instances of mplayer, with 2 Matrox G200 MMS (4 outputs 
on each)

Le Jeudi 8 Août 2002 15:03, vous avez écrit :
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> i can watch two mplayers with -vo xv in both of them...
>
> geforce4+nvidia drivers here...
>
> actually when i start the second mplayer -vo xv, he complains:
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> Xv: could not grab port 119
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> but it works... i get a second xv display ( it must be xv because i can
> resize it etc. )
>
> bye,
> gabor
>
> On Thu, 2002-08-08 at 02:12, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 01:22:43AM -0400, Jakub Pieczonka wrote:
> > > I actually want to play two videos side by side on the same screen.  Is
> > > this possible?  Do I need to run two instances of MPlayer?  Currently,
> > > it returns an error message that the video out device could not be
> > > initialized.  I tried several different modes (dga, xv, gl2, sdl) but
> > > none of them seemed to help.
> >
> > Yes, no problem.  Just run mplayer with two different video out drivers.
> > One of them should be x11, though.  I had success with -vo x11 on one
> > movie and any -vo option for the other one.  My machine even appears to
> > be fast enough for this (K6-III 500).
> >
> > Diego
> >
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