[MPlayer-users] using quartz vo remotely

Hugo González Monteverde hugonz at h-lab.net
Thu Oct 7 22:41:30 CEST 2004


Maxwell Terpstra wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> Having heard a lot about the remote display functionality of X11, I 
> thought it would be fun to put together a 'video-server' on my home 
> network, using Mplayer on a Debian box.  One of the computers I would 
> like to offer this service to is an iBook running OSX/quartz.  I have


I'd say it is possible. I'm not familiar with quartz. I'd setup

$export DISPLAY=myremotebox:0
$mplayer -vo x11  myfile

This would play more slowly than, say XV or XVIDIX, I dunno if XV can be 
exported....

Just my two cents.

Hugo




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