How to control the playback of multiple arbitrary videos at once?

[holymario]

Hi, everyone. Let's say we have two videos here. They are of different resolution, different codecs, different length. Like 100x100 x264 1min, and 234x109 webm 2min13s. If we want to play them at the same time side by side from the beginning (synced from 00:00:00). And we also want to control the pausing and resuming of the two files at once. If the shorter videos are done, the rest keep on playing until all are finished. And the audio track will be mixed, better if we can choose which ones.

So, no converting, no merging, are there more convenient solutions for this than VLC's input-slave?

Practical applications example: recordings from different perspectives of the same event.

[Cornucopia]

Avisynth arrange script?

Scott

[jagabo]

AVPlayer (Awesome Video Player).

[holymario]

Avisynth arrange script?

Scott

Thanks! Does avisynth work on videos with different width and height?

[holymario]

AVPlayer (Awesome Video Player).

Valid solution! Thank you!

[sheppaul]

http://hammultiplayer.org/

[Cornucopia]

Avisynth arrange script?

Scott

Thanks! Does avisynth work on videos with different width and height?

Not automatically. You would have to add script code to pad the lesser, or to crop the larger, of 2 images, for example. Easy enough to do if you know AVISynth.

Scott

[Cornucopia]

Btw, why do you have such goofy sizes? Cameras shoot with standardized sizes (640x480, 1280x720, 1920x1080, etc).

Scott

[pandy]

My 2 cent: ffplay

[holymario]

Btw, why do you have such goofy sizes? Cameras shoot with standardized sizes (640x480, 1280x720, 1920x1080, etc).

Scott

Thanks again! The resolution's just hypothetical. The point's they're very different.

[holymario]

http://hammultiplayer.org/

Thank you!

[holymario]

My 2 cent: ffplay

Thank you!

[pandy]

My 2 cent: ffplay

Thank you!

You Welcome!

https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Create%20a%20mosaic%20out%20of%20several%20input%20videos