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I have an older laptop connected to my older tv. Can I do something as simple as connect to old-laptop from new-laptop with ssh and start mplayer so it can play on its own xorg (on TV) and still be able to control everything from new-laptop? And how do I do that?
Last edited by mixtr (2011-08-02 23:57:15)
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Simply logging in through ssh and running mplayer might be enough to make it work.
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Ask Google: http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … a-netbook/ or http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1345001
Last edited by karol (2011-08-02 23:41:58)
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It kind of does except the whole screen becomes black and the video takes only a small corner of the screen and I get no control from new-laptop (fullscreen, play/pause, back/forward...). Once I terminate the video, the screen froze and I have to Ctrl+Alt F1 and then F7 to bring it back to normal.
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Problem with that is that I want to do the opposite. My videos are stored on old-laptop and I want to play them from it but control everything from new-laptop.
EDIT: but the second link doest exactly what I want.
Thank a lot
Last edited by mixtr (2011-08-02 23:52:03)
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IIRC it might happen if you run bare X. I simply use dwm (a very light wm) and mplayer went fullscreen w/o a problem.
You can tell mplayer to listen to a named pipe
mkfifo mplayer.pipe
mplayer -slave -input file=mplayer.pipeand input commands this way
echo "pt_step 1" > mplayer.pipe
echo "pt_step -1" > mplayer.pipeI don't recall if I ever tested it ;P
Edit: I thought http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p= … ostcount=4 did what you want.
Last edited by karol (2011-08-02 23:50:34)
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IIRC it might happen if you run bare X. I simply use dwm (a very light wm) and mplayer went fullscreen w/o a problem.
You can tell mplayer to listen to a named pipemkfifo mplayer.pipe mplayer -slave -input file=mplayer.pipeand input commands this way
echo "pt_step 1" > mplayer.pipe echo "pt_step -1" > mplayer.pipeI don't recall if I ever tested it ;P
Edit: I thought http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p= … ostcount=4 did what you want.
It did, I just saw the first link first.
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I ssh onto the computer I want to play something. I use the following command to tell it what screen (Display) to display program. Then I run mplayer movie/file. I then have an open ssh terminal with mplayer running in it. I can control it using keybinds.
export DISPLAY=:0.0
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export DISPLAY:=0.0 # I can't remember which it is. Other options would be to run a vnc on the older laptop and connect to it (although a bit overkill). A friend of mine uses a wireless mouse and another has an Xbox controller to control the display.
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I ssh onto the computer I want to play something. I use the following command to tell it what screen (Display) to display program. Then I run mplayer movie/file. I then have an open ssh terminal with mplayer running in it. I can control it using keybinds.
export DISPLAY=:0.0 or export DISPLAY:=0.0 # I can't remember which it is.Other options would be to run a vnc on the older laptop and connect to it (although a bit overkill). A friend of mine uses a wireless mouse and another has an Xbox controller to control the display.
It's
export DISPLAY=:0.0and the issue here is already solved :-)
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