Video Wall or synced playback

[renessance]

Hi!

I am trying to find our how to setup / start VLC on a windows computer to do the following two options:

Playback 3 different videofiles synced on 1 (or 3 different) computers playing at the same time.

Playback 1 wide videofile on 1 computer which is divided into 3 pieces by the wall module.

But I can't seem to get the modules to work. What commandline code should I use?

Any help would be really appreciated!

[KoenL]

Hi renessance,

VIDEO WALL
Playback of one wide video file on one computer, divided in 3 pieces:
vlc --vout-filter=wall --wall-rows=1 --wall-cols=3 yourfile.wmv
Then drag each instance to a seperate monitor and double click on a video to enlarge all to fullscreen.
The video wall filter works fine.

VLC help page of the Wall filter: http://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Modules/wall

SYNC MULTIPLE COMPUTERS
I have to stream three times Full HD, so that's a wide video file of 5760x1080 pixels. Quite tough to serve by one computer using the wall filter. So i realy want to use three computers to playback each part of the video (left, middle, right).
The netsync module should help. The documentation says as common use of this module: "Synchronise several computers playing parts of a video wall".

VLC help page of Netsync: http://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Modules/netsync

I used the following command lines:
Machine 1 (master, IP 10.0.1.100)
vlc --extraintf=netsync --netsync-master c:\file1.wmv
Machine 2 (slave)
vlc --extraintf=netsync --netsync-master-ip=10.0.1.100 c:\file2.wmv
Machine 3 (slave)
vlc --extraintf=netsync --netsync-master-ip=10.0.1.100 c:\file3.wmv

Unfortunately, when the master starts playing, the two videos on the other computers freece and those VLC-players hang (have to kill the Windows processes manually).

Does anyone have an answer to (one of my) questions?
Is VLC, at all, able to sync different videos on different computers? (I didn't find any working example in the forum)
Am I doing something wrong, or is it a bug that causes the freece/crashes?
Do you have a suggestion what to try further, a working experience or a command line example?

Regards,
Koen Lindner

My environment: VLC 1.1.2 (Dutch language), Windows 7 (64 bit)

[yosiyakovi]

Hi,
Did you figured out the problem ?
I have exactly the same thing.
When i am starting the master all the clients are freeze.
I am having the same exact problem in Mplayer.
In Windows XP everything works fine, but in Win7 x64 i have the issue.

Thanks,