[MPlayer-users] x forwarded control

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 03:09:45PM -0500, JQ wrote:
> Thank you for the replies.
> This definitely helps.
> 
> I guess I meant run mplayer's xinterface remotely but have it stream the 
> vid locally out the vga port.
> 
> in any case, am i right in thinking i'll need X, etc on "A" (gmplayer) 
> in order to play through the vga port... and then I'd need control for 
> resizing the window or going fullscreen (which would then make more 
> sense to drop all the remote stuff and just control it locally)?
> 
> or is there some form of running mplayer from the commandline specifying 
> a resolution, refresh, etc.... straight to vga?

Use any -vo other than the X-based ones, or even with X you can use
-fs to go fullscreen at startup. Video mode (refresh, etc.) comes from
what you configured in your X server.

Rich