Two Simultaneous Videos

[michey22]

When creating a new skin, is it possible to have two Video components within a single Layout tag, each playing a different video at the same time? If so, how?

Thanks ...

[ipkiss]

No it's not. It's not even possible to play 2 videos at the same time with the same VLC...

[joseph5]

It's not even possible to play 2 videos at the same time with the same VLC...

Yes, it is. Just create a matroska file with 2 video tracks. VLC will play both of them at the same time.

[ipkiss]

Yes, but the videos are not unrelated in the sense that they come from the same source file. So having 2 Video controls for the very rare cases where the same files contains 2 video tracks seems pointless to me.
Anyway, the skins engine doesn't support that, only one Video control can be used at the same time (the second track would probably be played in its own unskinned window).

[dionoea]

It's possible using VLM /me hides

[chatdeau]

Hi,

The only way I could achieve to play 2 videos simultaneously on Mac OS X was to duplicate the VLC application with another name. I duplicated mine with VLC2.

The "problem" with this is that you have to open the second one manually to then open the second video file you want to play.

Another thing (that I didn't try yet) that could work would be to associate, for instance, AVI files with VLC and MPEG files with VLC2. Then, the possibilities "multiply"; that is, if it works.

Hope it helps anyone, as a "cheap" workaround.

- chatdeau -

[animaux]

It's not even possible to play 2 videos at the same time with the same VLC...

Yes, it is. Just create a matroska file with 2 video tracks. VLC will play both of them at the same time.

I was able to do that like you described. Anyway, I’m interested in having 2 different video streams in synchronized play on two displays via a single instance of vlc. It works fine with 2 displays in windowed mode, but I would need to to that in fullscreen. When switching to fullscreen, the main screen does swith to proper fullscreen mode, while the other video retains windowsed mode on the secondary screen. As soon as I try to switch the second window with the second video stream to fullscreen, the whole secondary screen turns white (!) and vlc crashes.

Does anyone know how to do this properly? Anyone able to replicate this behaviour?

I tried this with a mkv-file containing 2 h.264-video-streams in xga at 10fps each. VLC Version is 8.8.6d Janus (Intel) on Mac OS 10.5.2 on a first generation MacBook Pro.

Thanks!

[geoffreyshea]

I've had no trouble opening two instances of VLC on WinXP and playing different videos full screen on different monitors. I'd like to try it on a MacBook Pro, but what are you using for dual monitors? Built-in and external?

Are you using a script to launch the player, to ensure sync?

[CloudStalker]

It's not even possible to play 2 videos at the same time with the same VLC...

Yes, it is. Just create a matroska file with 2 video tracks. VLC will play both of them at the same time.

I was able to do that like you described. Anyway, I’m interested in having 2 different video streams in synchronized play on two displays via a single instance of vlc. It works fine with 2 displays in windowed mode, but I would need to to that in fullscreen. When switching to fullscreen, the main screen does swith to proper fullscreen mode, while the other video retains windowsed mode on the secondary screen. As soon as I try to switch the second window with the second video stream to fullscreen, the whole secondary screen turns white (!) and vlc crashes.!

Try disabling the Overlay Video Output in Preferences -> Video -> Overlay Video output (Disable). This should at least let you view the video on a second monitor.