[PLUG] Play a video from the command line?

[Ben Koenig]

mplayer also has a -display option to set the display variable.
On my system modifying DISPLAY turned my entire screen green. mostly green.

mplayer -display :0 /path/to/video

I'm not really sure why DISPLAY=:1 mplayer corrupted my entire screen...

On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 6:54 PM Bill Barry <bill at billbarry.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 2:47 AM Dick Steffens <dick at dicksteffens.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Searching tells me that Mplayer is supposed to be able to play a video
> > from the command line. (I haven't had time to learn more.)
> >
> > What I want to do is to be able to initiate the playing of a video on
> > computer A from computer B, but have the video output stay on computer
> > A. I have a computer with HDMI out connected to the TV. For watching
> > videos, that's fine, except the controls for starting and stopping are
> > hard to see from across the room. Years ago I wrote a web based program
> > to play audio on a computer connected to the living room stereo that let
> > me do that from any other computer in the house. I used the command play
> > to do that. It worked fine. I'm hoping I can do something similar with
> > video.
> >
> > I suppose another approach would be to use one of the tools that can
> > take over one computer from another, where the video would show up on
> > both computers. That would meet the requirements, too.
> >
> > Anyway, has anyone done anything like this with Linux?
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> >
> > Dick Steffens
> >
> > __________________
>
>
> It has to do with setting the DISPLAY environment variable correctly
>
> Here is an explanation
>
> https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/76751/playing-a-remote-movie-on-the-remote-computer
>
>
> the short answer is that you could try
>
> export DISPLAY=:0
> mplayer /path/to/movie.mpg
>
> assuming :0 is the right local display.
>
> Bill
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