j-holub/Node-MPV

Unable to run multiple instance?

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Chris763454357 commented

Is it possible to have a new instance of MPV open each time instead of overrides my current video/instance? As a test I even tried to trick the wrapper by using two instances of mpvAPI using two separate versions of mpv.exe (using the binary property).

Is this just a limitation of this wrapper since it 'keeps an instance of MPV running in the background'?

j-holub commented

Hey Chris,

in theory it should be possible, but if you're using the default parameters, you will use only one IPC socket for the communication with the 2 instances, which will probably cause issues, if it even works at all.

Have you already tried to use the socket option to set a different IPC socket for each instance?

husudosu commented

Definitely possible. Just use different socket names for each instance. It's working for my project.