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

[Roger Pack]

> 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