[PLUG] Play a video from the command line?

[Ben Koenig]

Actually I ran it on my local system. I was expecting it to give an error
when I specified a display that didn't exist, instead it turned everything
green. Probably something specific to my setup. KDE4 does strange stuff
sometimes.

On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 7:21 PM Bill Barry <bill at billbarry.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 3:07 AM Ben Koenig <techkoenig at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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...
> >
> >
> Maybe the problem is that when you ssh in to the machine you want to play
> the movie on you have to be the same user that is logged into the computer
> locally.
>
> Bill
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