On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 2:47 AM Dick Steffens <d...@dicksteffens.com> 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 have the video output stay on computer > A. I have a computer with HDMI out connected to the TV. For watching > videos, that's fine, except the controls for starting and stopping are > hard to see from across the room. Years ago I wrote a web based program > to play audio on a computer connected to the living room stereo that let > me do that from any other computer in the house. I used the command play > to do that. It worked fine. I'm hoping I can do something similar with > video. > > I suppose another approach would be to use one of the tools that can > take over one computer from another, where the video would show up on > both computers. That would meet the requirements, too. > > Anyway, has anyone done anything like this with Linux? > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens > > __________________ It has to do with setting the DISPLAY environment variable correctly Here is an explanation https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/76751/playing-a-remote-movie-on-the-remote-computer the short answer is that you could try export DISPLAY=:0 mplayer /path/to/movie.mpg assuming :0 is the right local display. Bill _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
