[MPlayer-users] playing two audio streams at the same time

[Peter Münster]

On Sun, Mar 10 2013, Nicolas George wrote:

> The first is very obvious: is your hardware capable of playing two different
> streams on the two outputs (headphones and speakers)?

Hardware is no problem: I can always buy another soundcard.


> If this is your situation, then there is an easy workaround: using (for
> example) ffmpeg and the amerge and pan filters, extract the two audio
> streams you are interested in and combine them into a layout suitable for
> your setup. For example, on my setup, I would have to produce a 7.1 file
> with French on front left and front right, the same on rear left and rear
> right, silence on front center and subwoofer¹, German on side left and
> right.

Thanks for your suggestion, I'll try something like that!


> Another solution would be to use network synchronized playback:
> http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/networksync.html

Sounds interesting too.

-- 
           Peter