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Re: XForward mplayer



On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:00:10 -0500 (EST), "Andrew Perrin"
<clists@perrin.socsci.unc.edu> said:
> On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, Andrew Malcolmson wrote:
> 
> > I want to xforward mplayer, but when I run it from my remote ssh
> > session, it runs in its console mode.
> >
> > Is there any way to force it to run as a GUI application so it will
> > appear in my local X session?  I don't see this in the MPlayer docs.
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> > Andrew Malcolmson
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> Have you tried an explicit -display option? Note that you may have
> trouble 
> with (a) audio on the remote machine; and (b) some of the rendering 
> engines will probably not work right through a remote X server.

Setting the DISPLAY option didn't do hit, but I did see the answer:
mplayer has startup options in the man page not shown in the console
'mplayer --help' where I looked.  

-gui forces startup in GUI mode.

Thanks
-------------------
Andrew Malcolmson


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