[MPlayer-users] Multiple slave modes not working

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 12:25:30AM +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 11:50:39PM +0100, houghi wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 11:29:46PM +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> > > Yes, essentially the MPlayer instances that are supposed to play the video
> > > get stuck probing for quite a long time (20 seconds or more I think).
> > > If you see the timestamp on the status line incrementing that means
> > > there is still something happening.
> > 
> > 20 seconds? I let it run for 5 minutes and all I get is sound.
> > 
> > > > Is there a place where I could see (and then test) the workaround?
> > > 
> > > It's in SVN, just do a svn up. It just consists of adding
> > > -demuxer y4m to the client instances.
> > 
> > That seems to work.
> > 
> > Now I need to look at the color (blue faces) and also there seems to be no
> > seek possible. However great to see it work now. Now I ave a basis to
> > start from.
> 
> Seeking works perfectly for me, including showing the seek bar...

Oh, now I see. The terminal window from which you started the script
must have the focus of course.
The main MPlayer instance (which in this case will not display
any video but only play audio) needs to get the seek commands/key presses.