[MPlayer-users] playing file from a remote server to its monitor

[Kevin DeKorte]

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Andrew Savchenko wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sunday 15 February 2009 17:49, Pierpaolo gullˆa wrote:
> [...]
>> I want to connect to this server via ssh , and launch mplayer to
>> playing a file , and sending the output to the server's screen .
>>
>> The server has gnome installed , and so x11.
> 
> export DISPLAY=:0.0 (or whatever display:screen you want to connect 
> to)
> Then run mplayer as usual in the same console.

Actually, use

ssh -X hostname

to connect, this will set up the x connection and then configure mplayer
to use x11 as the default vo.

Kevin




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