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

[Diego Biurrun]

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