I imagined something along these lines, but did not know mplayer enough to know where to start looking. Thanks a lot for the pointers! And it seems that time and position can be retrieved: http://howto.wikia.com/wiki/Howto_configure_MPlayer/input-cmdlist get_percent_pos get_time_pos get_time_length So using these commands and speed_incr, I think I should be able to make the players follow a centralised clock pretty exactly. Very nice! Thanks, Lehni On 27 Nov 2008, at 20:35, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Thursday 2008-11-27 21:19, Oliver Seitz wrote: >> >>> Is there such a feature? >> >> I think not. Or maybe not yet. Reading time and again thru the >> manpage >> with that very issue in mind, I thougt it might be worth trying to >> tell >> mplayer to use the clock for timing, keeping the clocks of the >> computers >> in sync via ntpd. That's a bit of a strange procedure and leaves the >> problem to start the players at exactly the same time, but it might >> be an >> approach. Have never tried it, though. > > Ingredients: > * mplayer -input file=<fifo> > * support for obtaining the time of the currently playing file > (I think this may be missing in mplayer, but easy to add) > * a local program that couples the FIFO with the network > * a remote program (possibly a central server) that resyncs > the video streams of all mplayer instances connected through > the daemons using commands mplayer accepts over the FIFO. > > Especially useful for resyncing are "speed_incr 0.01" / > "speed_incr -0.01". > _______________________________________________ > MPlayer-users mailing list > MPlayer-users at mplayerhq.hu > https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users
