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 <b...@billbarry.org> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
