[FFmpeg-user] How to stream to HDMI on Linux/Ubuntu

[Fred Perie]

If your graphic card has a hdmi port, this is considered as a screen, you
just need to go to the display menu in the preference menu and activate it.
Than any player will do the job on this display.

Fred


2013/12/2 David Favor <david at davidfavor.com>

> Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
>
>> David Favor <david <at> davidfavor.com> writes:
>>
>>  Using latest Ubuntu-13.10 + ffmpeg-2.1.1 - the best way to stream audio
>>> + video directly to an HDMI port connected to a TV.
>>>
>>
>> Apart from "don't highjack mailing threads, this is (also) very rude":
>> Streaming audio via HDMI is completely straight-forward, I am not sure
>> what you mean with streaming video:
>> There is -f sdl and -f xv (and both work fine with HDMI) but ffmpeg is
>> not a media player so I think I don't understand your use-case.
>>
>> Or would "Use MPlayer" be a possible answer?
>>
>> Carl Eugen
>>
>
> I'm looking for the simple command, something like...
>
> ffmpeg -i foo.mp4 /dev/hdmi
>
> Maybe this is so simple, I'm just missing it.
>
> So I guess two questions...
>
> 1) How do determine the HDMI device on a given machine
>
> 2) Syntax to stream a .mp4 file to the device
>
> Thanks.
>
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