VNC might do the trick. But if you think of the laptop as a remote > control, and in general terms how the average video device works, menu > and control reaction are observed on the main display. I would think > along the lines of a remote control program on the laptop and the > complimentary listening service on the server. >
Yes, it looks like VNC would indeed take care of it. But that's too heavy-handed of a solution for me at the moment. I'm not interested in installing new software on there simply to control a video player. SSH is so much less intrusive, but powerful. What I was wanting to do was merely because I thought that I could. It is easier to get up and walk 5 feet to the server than it is to fight this very much. But I'm a curious sort and I wanted to see if I could do it. After trying the obvious stuff and then google I saw that it surely must be possible, just beyond what I can figure out right now. > > Otherwise, I would think that issuing a VLC command to direct output to > a specific display is required. > Which is the conclusion I came to, as well, but I sure can't figure out what that command might be. Probably because VLC is such a mature and full-featured network aware program, it has all kinds of commands to send the output stream to various different places through a plethora of different protocols. In looking through their forum and this page: http://wiki.videolan.org/VLC_command-line_help I came away from it all no closer to solving it than I started. The amount of options was dizzying, and I didn't understand the half of what they did, so I failed to find anything helfpul. > > Just a thought. > > > I appreciate it, thanks. Erik _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
