[MPlayer-users] mplayer udp sync -- several instances on one machine

[johannes amorosa]

On 6 July 2012 22:13, Roger Pack <rogerdpack2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> > I want to synchronise 5 HD videos with mplayer and all my tests worked
> out
> > great. As master I use:
> > mplayer -vo gl -xineramascreen 0 -udp-master -cache 1048576 -loop 0
> > -fixed-vo -fs -udp-ip 192.168.1.255 output.avi
> >
> > As slave this one:
> > mplayer -vo gl -xineramascreen 1 -udp-slave -cache 1048576 -loop 0
> > -fixed-vo -fs output.avi
> >
> > I wanted to use 2 streams on 1 multihead graficcard and use
> > the -xineramascreen 0 option to place them on the right desktop.
> > But the second slave won't sync. I didn't test this setup because I never
> > thought the "first" instance is blocking the port.
> > Is this the case? As Backup I could get 5 dedicated machines but ...
> >
> > Master and slave on one machine works great. So I believe it's a port or
> > network issue. Maybe some port rerouting is possible.
>
>
> I'm not totally familiar with it but my guess is the slave is
> cache-ing. Maybe -nocache would help?
> -r
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Thank you Roger for your response. Unfortunately that didn't do the trick.
I believe it's
a network issue or the port is "blocked". The first instance always
synchronises and the
second one fails.
Johannes