

The basic GUI would be a window just asking for the Twitch user you would like to watch and perhaps a choice on which program you want to execute other than vlc. This is a VLC problem / feature and I cannot control it.

Still, I'll look for an alternative.Īs a side note, on Windows, is the user who needs to allow multiple instances on VLC, while on Mac, the twitch-stream app already handles the multi-screen issue. It's in Windows where the problem persists.
#MULTIPLE VLC WINDOWS MAC MAC OS#
On Mac OS X, the code run just fine if I want to decouple the VLC screen from the Terminal itself. This is intended, and it is a side effect of Go: because it's a cross platform language, they're still getting through the possibility of process forking. While the app is running you can't do anything else on cmd.
#MULTIPLE VLC WINDOWS MAC WINDOWS 8.1#
In windows 8.1 prof, I think you can't have multiple instances because you execute it through cmd and you can't open a new cmd to run it there. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub. I'll keep this ticket open as an enhancement so we can keep track of it in the future! It might probably be a good fit to just pass several parameters to the app and let the app open as many VLC instances as possible. At least in Mac OS X, it will open several VLC windows with the correspondent stream on it. Regarding supporting multiple screens, that's already available: you just need to execute the app with as many instances as you like. I just need to find a library who works and who can create user interfaces on both Mac and Windows. For Europe the average delay is around 17 seconds in contrary with live streamer which is more than 30 seconds Some people have reported that the feature works in VLC 2.2.* but from VLC 3 onwards.Īdditionally, the third and more videos can be added by manually adding additional path information to the Edit Options field.In windows 8.1 prof, I think you can't have multiple instances because you execute it through cmd and you can't open a new cmd to run it there. Otherwise, you should go to Video > Video Track and choose Track 2. Now, if you have the right version of VLC Media Player, it will work. Press Add to locate and add the second video.Click and check the ☑ Play another media synchronously (extra audio file, …) checkbox.Check the ☑ Show more options checkbox.Click on Add to browse and add the first video.Here are the steps to open two videos side by side in VLC Media Player: But if everything is done correctly, we will have two videos playing in sync in VLC Media Player. Doing it might be a bit tricky and the results achieved might differ in different versions of VLC Media Player. We can add a third or even a fourth video. So, an extra media file (video or audio) will load and play at the same time. Before, the same result was achieved by opening two instances of VLC and aligning them to share the screen and play them. With the modern version of the VLC, it can natively open and synchronously play two media files. Or, we might need a mashup where we use the audio from one video and the visuals from the other one. We might have to open two videos simultaneously to compare them. There might arise a need when we have to open two videos side by side using VLC Media Player.
