This was actually really tricky, because the problem was that the -loop 0 I had been using on the slave was actually waiting for the master to broadcast its position and sync up. In fact I talked to one of my friends who was one of the mplayer developers and he told me what I wanted to do was impossible.
So the hack that I ended up using was to constantly check the current position of the slave and just as it gets to the EOF restarting the file after a specific bit of sleep - which I had to tune by hand...
First to set up the master use this:
mplayer -udp-master -udp-ip 10.42.0.255 masterVideo.mp4 -loop 0
For the slave I used the following script:
#!/bin/bash
fifo="/tmp/fifo"
rm -rf $fifo
mkfifo $fifo
mplayer -nocache -slave -fixed-vo -idle -udp-ip 10.42.0.255 -udp-slave -udp-seek-threshold 0.5 -osdlevel 0 -input file=$fifo >$fifo.answer "slaveVideo.mp4" &
somepid=$!
echo $somepid
function getpos() {
local newpos=none
while ! [[ "$newpos" =~ ANS_TIME ]]; do
echo "get_time_pos" > $fifo
newpos=$(tail -n 1 $fifo.answer)
[[ "$newpos" =~ "EOF code: 1" ]] && { pos=-1; echo > $fifo.answer; return; }
pos=${newpos#ANS_TIME_POSITION=}
done
pos=${pos#0}
pos2=$(echo "$pos + 0.14" | bc )
printf "%.2f" "$pos2"
}
function getlen() {
local newlen=none
while ! [[ "$newlen" =~ ANS_LENGTH ]]; do
echo "get_time_length" > $fifo
newlen=$(tail -n 1 $fifo.answer)
len=${newlen#ANS_LENGTH=}
sleep 0.1
done
len=${len#0}
echo ${len}
}
len=$(getlen)
while true; do
pos=$(getpos)
if [[ $pos == $len ]]
then
# YOU MUST TWEAK THE FOLLOWING
# SLEEP TIME FOR YOUR MACHINE
sleep 0.5
echo "loadfile /media/media/1.mp4" > $fifo
fi
done
By the way, I am using a compiled mplayer - not mplayer2. Pause works very cleanly, as does skip... However, it is quite important that the two files have exactly the same duration and use the same codecs...
