[MPlayer-users] playing to video streams

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hello,
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 11:16:46AM +0100, Nico Sabbi wrote:
> Il Sunday 10 February 2008 04:24:06 Carl Karsten ha scritto:
> > Can mplayer play 2 video tracks at the same time?   Ideally in 2 separate windows.
> > 
> > For instance, some DVDs have 2+ video tracks, typically called angles.  I want
> > to see both of those, plus hear the audio.
> > 
> > The real need for this is playback of a video of a speaker, and what he is 
> > displaying on an overhead. (slides and demo code)  and I don't want to have to 
> > do hours of editing later trying to cut back and forth depending on what is 
> > interesting.  let the viewer see both, and they can figure out what to pay 
> > attention to.
> > 
> > Carl K
> > 
> 
> mplayer can't play more than 1 video and 1 audio stream, ATM.
> I'm almost scared to say "patch welcome" because the current code
> is already very scary...

Sure it can, it just would be two processes (aka just start it twice).
Depending on what you want to do exactly this admittedly can be a bit
painful to use though.