curious topic ... i was discussing exactly about this with 2 colleages and yesterday i joined the list. now, i found your message... in my research i found something interesting .. Using the tilesort SPU, Chromium can provide 3d acceleration over the entire DMX display (consisting of multiple machines). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xdmx have you looked for xdmx? i think you can do the same running just 1 mplayer, xdmx and chromium .. your idea was the first solution that came to my mind too .. On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 11:16 PM, Lehni <lists at scratchdisk.com> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > MPlayer-users mailing list > MPlayer-users at mplayerhq.hu > https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users >
