Multiple instances support

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It would be great if you could integrate multiple instance support on MPlayerX 
so you could view or play multiple videos simultaneously.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by raven...@gmail.com on 22 Jun 2010 at 9:13

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It is the feature I missed at the very beginning.

Changing current infrastructure is a huge job, but not giant.

Original comment by zongyao.qu on 23 Jun 2010 at 1:33

• Changed state: Accepted
• Added labels: Type-Feature
• Removed labels: Priority-Medium, Type-Defect

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Original comment by zongyao.qu on 25 Mar 2011 at 4:54

• Added labels: Priority-Low

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Issue 296 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by zongyao.qu on 19 Apr 2011 at 11:10

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My top prio issue too. For some strange reason, there is hardly any video 
player on osx that can have multiple instances.

Original comment by bwak...@gmail.com on 23 Apr 2011 at 1:41

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it is not strange, 

you may find that the multi-instance player may have no playlist, e.g QuickTime 
X.

playlist + multi-instance will bring panic to designers.

If I could solve it, MPlayerX may prevail further. ...  :D

Original comment by zongyao.qu on 25 Apr 2011 at 2:17

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I would definately vote for multi-instance over playlists :). Is this an OSX 
related difficulty? On windows almost every media player supports both 
playlists and multi-instance.

Original comment by pe...@mutsaers.com on 19 May 2011 at 10:22

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no, not OSX related, I would say, coz Quicktime is Multi-instance.

Original comment by kex...@gmail.com on 19 May 2011 at 10:43

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+ associations manager.
+ toggle full screen to "enter" 

Original comment by S.As...@gmail.com on 16 Jul 2011 at 4:48

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> + associations manager.
> + toggle full screen to "enter" 

What do you mean?

Original comment by zongyao.qu on 16 Jul 2011 at 9:52

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He means that you should implement a file association manager inside MplayerX 
(for .mkv etc), and that Enter/Return should toggle full-screen on video (like 
CMD+F and Double-LeftClick already does).

Completely unnecessary in my opinion, and he could have made a new issue for 
the request.

Original comment by zot...@gmail.com on 18 Jul 2011 at 8:44

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Why don't you try open -n /Applications/MPlayerX.app command from the terminal, 
it should start a new instance of the application.

Original comment by fyasi...@gmail.com on 5 Aug 2011 at 2:52

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Issue 639 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by zongyao.qu on 10 Oct 2011 at 1:03

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I have a created a small app for MPlayerX that can actutally support multiple 
instances. 

If you start that via finder on a video file it will open a fresh new instance 
of mplayer any time. If someone is interested, I'm happy to give you that. Just 
mail me on oliver@source-knights.com

Original comment by naci...@googlemail.com on 20 Oct 2011 at 4:26

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Issue 842 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by supp...@mplayerx.org on 16 Feb 2012 at 6:23

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Issue 882 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by supp...@mplayerx.org on 25 Feb 2012 at 6:01

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• Include this (as multiple windows) and also:
• Video Trimming+Save, 
and then Apples Quicktime X player is no more useful for me.

And:
If you include an option to (automatically?) save the complete layout, i.e. all 
window sizes/positions, time positions, speeds, volumes, etc., just simply 
everything — 
then there is no other media player in the known universe … Nope, really 
isn't, man. ;-)

Original comment by felix.ar...@gmail.com on 13 Mar 2012 at 6:10

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Would love to see that implemented. 

Original comment by sebastia...@gmail.com on 1 Aug 2012 at 7:21

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This is extremely important..
I've been waiting for this for a long time!

Original comment by ZaYoO...@gmail.com on 22 Sep 2012 at 7:04

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it would be nice to have this multiple instance feature, please....
:-)

webber

Original comment by webber.t...@gmail.com on 3 Dec 2012 at 2:15

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Would love to have this feature

Original comment by sarah.mu...@gmail.com on 15 Jul 2013 at 11:02

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I found this page, because I wanted the multiple instance feature as well... 
but then I realised that it's handy as it forces you to focus on one video. I 
understand for some people for certain purposes it might be handy. So it be 
great if the feature can be toggled on and off...

Thank you for a great app... I discovered it just now and a whole world opened 
up... love it :D Amazing work

Original comment by RamiroPa...@gmail.com on 1 Dec 2013 at 12:42

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I NEED THIS❕

this is all i need and this will be the best video player ever!

1- multi-windows support (( the most important thing for me ))
i want to open 2 videos at once!

2- save screen option size "half the size"
i don't want to open any video and take all the screen size because its 1080p!
i want it ti save the "half the screen size" option so when i open it it will 
be small in my screen (( please do this! ))

3- playlist
we NEED THIS! i want to be able to choose my playlist!

thats it .. thank you !

Original comment by kayan.en...@gmail.com on 19 Oct 2014 at 1:59

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Just do this:

Right-click on your MPlayerX application, and click "Duplicate". Now you'll 
have another copy of MPlayerX, one that can be open simultaneously with the 
original. Make a bunch of duplicates and you can open lots of movies at the 
same time. 

It's not pretty, but it works for me.

Original comment by cdk.c...@gmail.com on 22 Oct 2014 at 9:50