interaction when running multiple instances

[gkreidl]

When I run multiple instances of omxplayer (in --win mode), I'm getting a strange interaction from the play/pause command (via stdin or dbus). For dbus commands I'm using different dbus names for each instance.
When I pause one video, the other videos play on but are muted. If I resume the first video again, I'm getting sound back immediately on other videos, but their video display freezes for a moment.
If I have paused one video and lost sound on all others, I can get sound back on them, when I pause them and start them again (each one). If I then resume the first video, the other videos are not disturbed in any way.

[popcornmix]

Yes, that is how it is. There is a common audio backend (audioplus) used by all the audio_render components (used by omxplayer).

audio_render does pause audioplus when paused. This unfortunately stops other clients.
This is not how I'd like it to behave, but it may not be simple to fix.
I'll talk to some of the devs who know this code and see if there's any solution.

[matthuisman]

Noticed this today. Glad I'm not the only one :)
Only noticed is on the PAUSE command.
Mute, Stop etc, all seem to work via DBUS on multiple instances, just not pause.

[purtic]

How do you get different dbus names for each instance? I got it working for one instance by reading /tmp/omxplayerdbus.pi but it's always the same, even after restarting the script. I have launched another instance by Popen...

[gkreidl]

start omxplayer with
omxplayer --dbus_name name file