[MPlayer-users] x forwarded control

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 01:28:18PM -0500, JQ wrote:
> Hi, I'm new to the list.
> 
> I'm trying to use mplayer to play divx in the following scenario:
> 
> A) Computer that has video, mplayer, and is plugged into the projector 
> via VGA.
> B) Computer running X Server and used basically just to control mplayer.
> 
> Run mplayer over X forwarding on computer B, and somehow have the video 
> from mplayer go straight to computer A's local vga output.

This is not what you want. It'll be way too slow running mplayer
remotely. Instead just use a terminal to control mplayer -- ssh into
the other computer and run mplayer without any x forwarding.

Rich