[MPlayer-users] Targetting multiple output windows simultaneously

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 06:31:56PM +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Friday, 01 October 2004 at 14:55, Karl Dane wrote:
> > I would like to be able to have on instance of mplayer outputting to 
> > several windows at once. Is this possible?
> > 
> > In particular, I have two instances of plugger in a browser that I'd 
> > like to target at the same time. Ideally I would use the -wid switch to 
> > specify a list of X11 window ID's, but this doesn't work. Does anyone 
> > know a solution to this?
> > 
> > Alternatively, is it possible to have two instances of mplayer playing 
> > the same video while guaranteeing that both instances remain 
> > synchronised? (Obviously only one of these instances has to send audio 
> > to the soundcard)
> 
> It is possible to have simultaneous playback of two or more videos,
> provided you have just as many VOs available. For example, some nvidia
> cards have more than one XVideo port available (mine has 88 and 89), so
> you can use -vo xv:port=88 for the first and -vo xv:port=89 for the second
> instance and still get hardware scaling on both. I don't know any way to
> make them play in sync, though.

no way to sync them. and anyway one of the xvideo ports sucks. it just
uses the blitter, so there's no vsync and the video will tear...

rich