[PLUG] VLC remote control

wes plug at the-wes.com
Thu Jan 7 22:46:22 UTC 2010


Try putting a & at the end of the command. Then it should run in the
background, and you can exit the SSH session, without having a Screen
session laying around until you remember to go back and clean it up.

-wes

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Erik Lane <eriklane at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Dwight Hubbard
> <dwight.hubbard at efausol.com>wrote:
>
> > If you don't need to transcode the video to stream it you might want to
> try
> > mplayer.
> >
> > Since with mplayer you can ssh into the box, set the display to the
> desired
> > display and run mplayer.  Mplayer will continue to take control commands
> > via
> > the ssh session that started it, but will use the display variable to
> > determine the display that it plays back to.
> >
> > Here's a session were I played a mpeg on the 42" LCD connected to my
> mythtv
> > box and controlled everything via the ssh session from my laptop:
> >
> > foo at laptop:~$ ssh mythtv
> > foo at mythtv's password:
> > Last login: Sun Jan  3 23:29:47 2010 from laptop.foo.com
> > [foo at mythtv ~]$ export DISPLAY=:0
> > [foo at mythtv ~]$ mplayer /var/lib/mythtv/videos/red_dwarf/red_dwarf-
> > better_than_life.mp4
> >
> > One curiosity is that using that export command first also controls which
> display vlc uses. Well curiosity is probably a bad word for it. More like a
> feature, I guess. But I found out because I was curious and tried it.
>
> With Larry's command it worked, but I was having issues with disabling the
> screensaver. For some reason it just wouldn't do it, no matter if I told it
> explicitly or not. So far by using the export command first I can simply
> tell either VLC or mplayer to play without using the cvlc or any other
> options and they both look like they've disabled the screensaver properly
> as
> well. Having the display set that way seems like it should be the same as
> setting it as an option to vlc, but for whatever reason it's not working
> that way for me.
>
> Now I just need to use screen to be able to close the ssh session without
> killing the video and it looks like I'm set. (I might be misunderstanding
> nohup, but I've tried it, and every time I close the ssh session it kills
> the movie, even with the nohup first on the cli. Oh well, not a big deal.)
>
> Thanks again to everyone, I've learned quite a bit in this little
> adventure.
>
> Erik
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