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On Sunday 13 May 2007, YoYo Siska wrote: |
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> > I've been asked something strange. I have to take a video input and split |
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> > it in three parts, sending it to three outputs simultaneously. |
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> > The first thing I thought of was creating a pipe, sending there the video |
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> > and trying to read from there. I did my firsts tests with mplayer, but as |
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> > soon as I launched the second instance of the video output, the mplayer |
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> > which was feeding the pipe exited. |
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> > Does any of you have any good idea to accomplish this in a simple and |
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> > elegant way? |
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> just expanding your idea with pipes: |
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> mkfifo f1 |
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> mkfifo f2 |
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> mkfifo f3 |
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> mplayer whatever_options_you_want_and_make_it_write_to_stdout | tee f1 |
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> | tee f2 >f3 |
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> and then reading from f1, f2, f3 doesn't do the thing you want ? |
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Just one caveat, mplayer does not do output to stdout, you only have the |
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option of using yuv4mpeg as video out, which means a pipe. I tried catting |
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this first pipe to multiple ones, but as I guessed, it didn't work. |
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Anyway, the more I think about it, the less I like it. Let's say it it's not |
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elegant at all. Much less nice. I think the best way would be streaming the |
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video and do various reads of it, showing different parts of the video on |
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each of the clients. |
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So far I only know of vlc. Is there any other software which can do streaming |
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of video only (I don't need sound) to multiple clients (on the same machine)? |
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Besides, I don't need it to travel multiple routers or anything like that. |
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My only constraint is that it has to be real time, all the clients need to |
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synchronized. |
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Javier Krausbeck <javier@×××××××××.org> |
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