While this is not exactly what you are asking - consider installing and using Kodi with wireless mouse/keyboard for playing media.
With Kodi - if you can see the screen and have wireless mouse, then you can control the player. Otherwise, wireless mouse/keyboard works well with mplayer from a distance too. :-) Hope this helps, Tomas On Thu, Dec 13, 2018, 7:24 AM Dick Steffens <d...@dicksteffens.com wrote: > Thanks for all the replies. I'll give them a try when I get some time. > > As I think through the process, I'd: > > SSH -X into computer B from computer A. > > Start Mplayer with -display :x (whichever one works) > > At that point, the video is displayed on computer B, and input comes > from computer A. I see from: > > http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/MPlayer.html#commandline > > that there are a number of keyboard controls I can use, and I could set > up a remote with LIRC, which I still have from back when I was using > MythTV. > > If those assumptions are correct, then this should be a workable > solution. Actually, Mplayer by itself may be a workable solution without > using the laptop. Part of the issue is being able to see all of the > screen. This TV doesn't handle under-scan, so the edges are not > displayed. But with keyboard control, that may not matter. > > Anyway, when I get the time I'll try them both and report my results. > > Thanks again for the replies. > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens > > _______________________________________________ > 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
