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turingmachine / omxplayer-sync

OMXPlayer-Sync facilitates synchronization of multiple OMXPlayer instances over the network in a master/slave fashion.
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4 screen setup #111

Open jazbogross opened 3 years ago

jazbogross commented 3 years ago

Before I start testing this for my purposes I thought I'd just ask if what I hope to do is possible at all. In the little example video I see the two Pis are connected to each other with the RJ45 cable. How does the master connect to the network with Wifi then? My setup hardware will be.

4x RaspPi 3 B+ (preferably Powered over Ethernet with a PoE hat). 4x HDMI monitors. 1x Router of some kind 4x Videos of exactly the same length. Each has unique image and audio that should play on each screen separately. The videos should loop and I don't mind if there is a lag or delay at the end/beginning. Main goal is for video and audio to be in sync throughout.

I have seen this video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xp6GKFaw0io&feature=youtu.be so I imagine it is possible in some way, but not sure if any extra hardware was required to do this and it is not clear to me from the readme how you might connect more than 1 slave to the master.

I would really appreciate it if anyone has a moment to clear that up for me. Best wishes and thanks for creating this.

DSPeelJ commented 3 years ago

The setup in the video used 24 Pi's, all connected to a 24 port switch. No other hardware needed. I made sure all the videos were encoded with identical setting and were the same length. Set one as the master and the rest as slaves. It was really pretty straight forward. Best of luck with your project

jazbogross commented 3 years ago

The setup in the video used 24 Pi's, all connected to a 24 port switch. No other hardware needed. I made sure all the videos were encoded with identical setting and were the same length. Set one as the master and the rest as slaves. It was really pretty straight forward. Best of luck with your project

Thanks for the quick reply!