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ElSenorPantelone
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 Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 5:36 am Post subject: Starting Multimedia Applications [SOLVED] |
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I have an HDTV to which I have a gentoo laptop connected via VGA. Everything regarding the display is working correctly, but I have a problem being that I don't wanna get up every time to change what show etc... that I am watching.
What I want to do is via a putty session, I wish to redirect video output from my current putty /dev/pts/4 to the VT that is running X, I believe /dev/tty7 is default for my current session. For example :ttyX mplayer somefile.avi would send the X application to that tty.
Essentially I would be using my computer as a remote control while redirecting all X to the tty.
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Chromatic Distortion
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| Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 5:43 am Post subject: |
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I know xmms is not in the portage tree anymore, but you can use it as a remote control as long as you install the mplayer plugin for xmms.
That way, when you launch xmms from your putty session (but first setting DISPLAY=:0.0, so it will display on the ssh host's X system), you can type
to go next in the playlist, -r to go backwards, -t to play/pause, etc.
Is this what you mean?
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ElSenorPantelone
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| Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 6:04 am Post subject: |
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| All I was looking for was the DISPLAY=:0 to redirect X output thanks. I don't need xmms to run the application from terminal, thanks! |
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