[xine-user] Using Xine for synchronized playback of multiple videostreams

[Carsten K. <car...@to...>]

Does anyone knows a solution for playing multiple videostreams in Sync
with a master Player/Timecode?

For a student project We are trying to set up a couple of simple
machines to play multiple videochannels, preferably MPEG2, but I guess
the codec would not be really relevant. For the first tests, it would
already be helpful if multiple players could start playing at the same
time, synchronized via TCP/IP or serial connections.

Later, a more robust chase sync mechanism would be needed, I guess. 

I have no experience with xine so far, but from the docs I see that xine
has a video/audio sync mechanism and internal clock/timecode that could
also be used to synchronize multiple video channels.

We were also looking into some Windows based solutions or hardware mpeg
players, but commercial solutions are simply too expensive (e.g. 2000US$
per video channel), while all known windows players/libraries seem to be
black boxes or simply lack any sync/remote capabilities and/or
stability.

Too bad Quicktime isn't available for Linux.



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Carsten Kurz, Cologne, Germany