[vlc] Re: synchronization of different clients/servers/channelserver

[Jean-Paul Saman]

Jan Lessing wrote:
> Hi
> 
> congratulations to your great project and work.
> 
> I want to use videolan for a linux based application which should 
> display a movie (MPEG 2, AVI, ... ) on a 4 display setup (4 LCD next to 
> each other) showing a special widescreen format movie (around 720x2304 
> Pixel). I think the easiest way would be to use a vls (--wall option) 
> which broadcasts the movie and 4 vlclients (each serving one display). 

Exactly what I would recommend.

> But I think the bandwith of a 100 Mbit network could be too low to 
> transfer the hole movie of such a resolution.

Use 1 Gigabit ethernet then.

> 
> So I was thinking about dividing the widescreen movie first in 4 movies 
> of normal size and copying these special movies to the harddisk of the 
> clients and then just using vlclients showing just the moviepart for the 
> display. For that purpose it is necessary to synchronise the different 
> vlclients to play each the same framenumber of the movie at the same 
> time. How would I do that? Is there a support for ntp (network time 
> protocal) for example?
> 
Your distribution supports ntp, but why do it the hard way? Keep it simple.

-- 
Kind greetings,

Jean-Paul Saman

Software Architect

e-mail (work): saman at natlab.research.philips.com
phone  (work): 040 27 42909
------------------------------------------------------------
Ordina TA,
Science Park Eindhoven 5602, Postbus 293, 5600 AG Eindhoven
e-mail : jean-paul.saman at ordina.nl
phone  : 040 2601200
fax    : 040 2601199

-- 
This is the vlc mailing-list, see http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
To unsubscribe, please read http://www.videolan.org/lists.html
If you are in trouble, please contact <postmaster at videolan.org>