On 12/13/18 11:19 AM, Tomas Kuchta wrote:
While this is not exactly what you are asking - consider installing and
using Kodi with wireless mouse/keyboard for playing media.
With Kodi - if you can see the screen and have wireless mouse, then you can
control the player.
Otherwise, wireless
While this is not exactly what you are asking - consider installing and
using Kodi with wireless mouse/keyboard for playing media.
With Kodi - if you can see the screen and have wireless mouse, then you can
control the player.
Otherwise, wireless mouse/keyboard works well with mplayer from a
Thanks for all the replies. I'll give them a try when I get some time.
As I think through the process, I'd:
SSH -X into computer B from computer A.
Start Mplayer with -display :x (whichever one works)
At that point, the video is displayed on computer B, and input comes
from computer A. I see
Actually I ran it on my local system. I was expecting it to give an error
when I specified a display that didn't exist, instead it turned everything
green. Probably something specific to my setup. KDE4 does strange stuff
sometimes.
On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 7:21 PM Bill Barry wrote:
> On Thu, Dec
On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 3:07 AM Ben Koenig wrote:
> mplayer also has a -display option to set the display variable.
> On my system modifying DISPLAY turned my entire screen green. mostly green.
>
> mplayer -display :0 /path/to/video
>
> I'm not really sure why DISPLAY=:1 mplayer corrupted my
mplayer also has a -display option to set the display variable.
On my system modifying DISPLAY turned my entire screen green. mostly green.
mplayer -display :0 /path/to/video
I'm not really sure why DISPLAY=:1 mplayer corrupted my entire screen...
On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 6:54 PM Bill Barry
On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 2:47 AM Dick Steffens wrote:
> Searching tells me that Mplayer is supposed to be able to play a video
> from the command line. (I haven't had time to learn more.)
>
> What I want to do is to be able to initiate the playing of a video on
> computer A from computer B, but
Searching tells me that Mplayer is supposed to be able to play a video
from the command line. (I haven't had time to learn more.)
What I want to do is to be able to initiate the playing of a video on
computer A from computer B, but have the video output stay on computer
A. I have a computer
