Try putting a & at the end of the command. Then it should run in the background, and you can exit the SSH session, without having a Screen session laying around until you remember to go back and clean it up.
-wes On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Erik Lane <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Dwight Hubbard > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > If you don't need to transcode the video to stream it you might want to > try > > mplayer. > > > > Since with mplayer you can ssh into the box, set the display to the > desired > > display and run mplayer. Mplayer will continue to take control commands > > via > > the ssh session that started it, but will use the display variable to > > determine the display that it plays back to. > > > > Here's a session were I played a mpeg on the 42" LCD connected to my > mythtv > > box and controlled everything via the ssh session from my laptop: > > > > f...@laptop:~$ ssh mythtv > > f...@mythtv's password: > > Last login: Sun Jan 3 23:29:47 2010 from laptop.foo.com > > [...@mythtv ~]$ export DISPLAY=:0 > > [...@mythtv ~]$ mplayer /var/lib/mythtv/videos/red_dwarf/red_dwarf- > > better_than_life.mp4 > > > > One curiosity is that using that export command first also controls which > display vlc uses. Well curiosity is probably a bad word for it. More like a > feature, I guess. But I found out because I was curious and tried it. > > With Larry's command it worked, but I was having issues with disabling the > screensaver. For some reason it just wouldn't do it, no matter if I told it > explicitly or not. So far by using the export command first I can simply > tell either VLC or mplayer to play without using the cvlc or any other > options and they both look like they've disabled the screensaver properly > as > well. Having the display set that way seems like it should be the same as > setting it as an option to vlc, but for whatever reason it's not working > that way for me. > > Now I just need to use screen to be able to close the ssh session without > killing the video and it looks like I'm set. (I might be misunderstanding > nohup, but I've tried it, and every time I close the ssh session it kills > the movie, even with the nohup first on the cli. Oh well, not a big deal.) > > Thanks again to everyone, I've learned quite a bit in this little > adventure. > > Erik > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
