[MPlayer-users] Playing Files Alternately

[Dhiraj Kamble]

Thanks a lot Ivo...



On 2/19/07, Ivo <ivop at euronet.nl> wrote:
>
> On Monday 19 February 2007 09:27, Dhiraj Kamble wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is it possible to do the following with mplayer
> >
> > can we play two video files(say 60 mins each) alternately each for say 5
> > minutes
> >
> > e.g:
> >  file1.mpg (60 minutes video)
> >  file2.mpg (60 minutes video)
> >
> > then can we play in the order
> >
> > file1(5mins).... file2(5mins)....file1(resume; 5 mins)....file2(resume;
> 5
> > mins)....file1(resume; 5 mins)....file2(resume; 5 mins)....
> > ..... and so on until the end of the clips.
> >
> >
> > pls let me know if there is any command line syntax for this....
> >
> > any sort of help will be appreciated.
>
> You could use:
>
> mplayer -fixed-vo file1.avi -ss 0:00 -endpos 300 file2.avi -ss 0:00
> -endpos
> 300 file1.avi -ss 5:00 -endpos 300
>
> ...et cetera.
>
> Or generate the command line with a script:
>
> #! /bin/sh
>
> file1=file1.avi
> file2=file2.avi
>
> j=` echo -n "mplayer -fixed-vo "
>     for i in 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 ; do
>         echo -n "$file1 -ss $i:00 -endpos 300 "
>         echo -n "$file2 -ss $i:00 -endpos 300 "
>     done
>     echo `
>
> echo $j
>
> Or use eval $j at the end to execute the command instead of printing it to
> stdout.
>
> --Ivo
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