[PLUG] VLC remote control

Dwight Hubbard dwight.hubbard at efausol.com
Thu Jan 7 22:56:45 UTC 2010


That won't work, backgrounding it will cause mplayer to suspend playback.  You 
would also loose the ability to control mplayer via the ssh session.  Screen 
works fine however.

On Thursday 07 January 2010 02:46:22 pm wes wrote:
> 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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