[MEncoder-users] Mplayer output on main display with SSH ?

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 8/14/05, Thijs Vermeir <thijsvermeir at telenet.be> wrote:
> 
> On 14-aug-05, at 16:41, Oded Shimon wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 03:57:10PM +0200, Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >> On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 09:24:42AM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 12:44:36PM +0200, Thijs Vermeir wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> So my question is : How can I start mplayer via ssh on PC2 to have
> >>>> all output on PC1?
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Even if you get it right, it won't work. Sending uncompressed video
> >>> over a network just isn't feasible...
> >>>
> >>
> >> Read again and not only the last part *g*, he actually want to run
> >> and
> >> display mplayer on PC1, just type the command in PC2 :-)
> >> DISPLAY=:0.1 mplayer... should do it btw.
> >>
> >
> > DISPLAY=:0 you mean, :0.1 won't work (unless he's got multiple..
> > whatevers)
> >
> > and BTW, it IS feasible! :) I've done -vo xv smoothly over network
> > cause my
> > pc was too slow to open the divx... looking back i do find it a bit
> > odd
> > that a PIII 500mhz was unable to play a divx small enough to transfer
> > uncompressed over network... Maybe i did something stupid...
> > anyway, it DID
> > play smoothly over network.. anything under 512x384 is feasible...
> >
> > - ods15
> 
> Thanks, for the reaction but it still does not work.
> 
> When I type :
> DISPLAY=:0 mplayer test.avi ( or anything else sugested)
> 
> mplayer start's playing but no screen and this message : (sound is ok)
> 
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
> vo: couldn't open the X11 display (:0)!
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
> vo: couldn't open the X11 display (:0)!
> VO XOverlay need a subdriver
> [gl] using extended formats.
> Make sure you have OpenGL >= 1.2 and used corresponding headers for
> compiling!
> [gl] Using 4 as slice height (0 means image height).
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
> vo: couldn't open the X11 display (:0)!
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
> vo: couldn't open the X11 display (:0)!
> No vidix driver name provided, probing available ones (-v option for
> details)!
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
> vo: couldn't open the X11 display (:0)!
> vo_cvidix: No vidix driver name provided, probing available ones (-v
> option for details)!
> vosub_vidix: Couldn't find working VIDIX driver
> 
> 
> Any other hints?

Try to copy ~/.Xauthority from one of the computer (the one where
you're gonna watch the video) to the other (the one where you launch
MPlayer).

Guillaume

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