2006-10-06, 22:36
FYI, there is a open source patch availble for MPlayer (for Linux/Win32) that enables synchronization between multiple MPlayer players on the network, it is called CMplayer (see http://persephone.cps.unizar.es/~spd/cmplayer/ for more information)
Softsqueeze (and the SlimServer software) from Slim Devices, is another open source software music player which allows multiple players to be syncronized (via "SqueezeNetwork"). SoftSqueezeis is written in Java but again, maybe a develper can just get some ideas from it(?):
http://softsqueeze.sourceforge.net
http://www.slimdevices.com
PS! Also see the feature suggestion topic-thread about the request for:
XBMC act as ESD (Enlightenment Sound Daemon) or PulseAudio server
Quote:CMplayer is a patch for MPlayer which lets you synchronise several players running on several computers (hence the name, Cluster MPlayer; but I may change it in the future) connected to a dedicated LAN.However that is problely not an ideal solution 'as is', however a developer might get some good ideas from the code(?)
So, every host will load a movie from its internal storage media, and all of them will be played at the same speed, i.e., all of them will start at the same moment and after some time, all of them will have played the same number of frames at a fixed framerate.
Softsqueeze (and the SlimServer software) from Slim Devices, is another open source software music player which allows multiple players to be syncronized (via "SqueezeNetwork"). SoftSqueezeis is written in Java but again, maybe a develper can just get some ideas from it(?):
http://softsqueeze.sourceforge.net
http://www.slimdevices.com
PS! Also see the feature suggestion topic-thread about the request for:
XBMC act as ESD (Enlightenment Sound Daemon) or PulseAudio server