Re: [gentoo-user] Help playing simultaneously splitted videos (sort of)

[YoYo Siska]

Javier Krausbeck wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I've been asked something strange. I have to take a video input and split it
> in three parts, sending it to three outputs simultaneously.
>
> The first thing I thought of was creating a pipe, sending there the video and
> trying to read from there. I did my firsts tests with mplayer, but as soon as
> I launched the second instance of the video output, the mplayer which was
> feeding the pipe exited.
>
> Does any of you have any good idea to accomplish this in a simple and elegant
> way?

just expanding your idea with pipes:

mkfifo f1
mkfifo f2
mkfifo f3
mplayer  whatever_options_you_want_and_make_it_write_to_stdout  | tee f1
| tee f2 >f3

and then reading from f1, f2, f3 doesn't do the thing you want ?

yoyo


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