Synchronised Playback
"Paul Strickland" <[email protected]>
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Hi there, I'm new to the group, and not too familiar with Mplayer, so please bear with me. I'm trying to play 3 videos in sync across networked Windows 10 Pcs, which will ultimately be projected side by side. For those old enough to remember, it's like a primitive version of Cinerama. Obviously, synchronisation is critical, so I'm trying to do as much as possible to ensure that the videos stay together. Unfortunately I don't have the budget to buy/rent 3 identical PCs and projectors, so the videos are being played on a mix of different equipment. I've set up and trialled Mplayer using the -udp-master and -udp-slave functions, and the results have been good, but not quite good enough. The three videos drift apart by a few milliseconds, and then re-sync, which is enough to make it look pretty clunky. To help keep things consistent, I've already taken a number of practical steps. . The videos are the same length, about 45 minutes . Videos are not highly compressed, each being approx. 11GB . They are encoded and assembled using the same tools, codecs, settings etc. (in fact, over 50% of the videos are identical, from the same source). . PCs are on a wired Gigabit network . Windows 10 builds are the same . Videos are all stored on each PCs C drive, on SSD Does anyone have any experience of doing anything similar, or have any ideas how I might improve things. Apart from the -udp settings, I've just let Mplayer run as standard, and I know there is a huge amount of tweaking I could try. Many thanks Paul _______________________________________________ MPlayer-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users