[MPlayer-users] Re: Multiple Mplayers (videos and MP3s)?

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>The PC is a P3-800 machine running NT4 with the latest servicepack. It
>is equipped with 2 MPEG-Cards (type unknown, most likely some Sigma card
>with Hollywood chipset) and a Terratec EWS88 MT Soundcard.

mplayer cant use hardware mpeg decoding on windows yet. its in wishlist.
www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/tech/wishlist

>Is it possible to start 6 instances of mplayer, play individual
>playlists for each player and select wich output each player should use?

it might be possible with the later mplayer (1.0pre5 or newer) on
windows, using the -v switch to see if mplayer can see your multiple
adapters, mplayer -adapter 2 -playlist c:\playlist2.txt and in another cmd
window, mplayer -adapter 1 -playlist c:\playlist1.txt

good luck.

for syncing them together? mmm hard...
there is an alpha on mplayer's related projects page, but its for 
multiple pc on a lan.