[MPlayer-users] Synchronizing multiple instance of Mplayer over the network

[Lehni]

Since each of the files are 1080i, I cannot use the broadcasting  
features fo VLC.

This is as close to an existing solution I have come in my search for  
one before, but it does not work for me.

The video whale project describes a similar setup:

http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/apps/videowhale.html

Jürg

On 27 Nov 2008, at 20:46, Stroller wrote:

>
> On 27 Nov 2008, at 19:44, Lehni wrote:
>> ...
>> I am trying to find out if it is possible to synchronize the playback
>> of muplitple instances of Mplayer on multiple machines across the
>> network. I would like to create a video wall based on HD resolution
>> video files. Each of these files is a part of a video of an even
>> higher resolution, and each would be played back by its own dedicated
>> machine.
>
> Have you looked at VLC, at all? I can't see quite how to apply it to
> your exact requirements, but it has been mentioned in the past WRT
> syncronising video playback on multiple machines.
>
> IIRC VLC has a broadcast server and you can point multiple VLC clients
> at it. If your video is merely 1080p then you may be able to configure
> each VLC client just to discard the unneeded parts of the video
> without straining the network & server.
>
> Stroller.
>
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