[MPlayer-users] connection refused

[Jack Smith]

On 9/14/07, yyang at commscope.com <yyang at commscope.com> wrote:
> Folks,
> Many thanks for your responses. I reply your questions in one email.
>
> 1. Masaru, I don't know what LIVE555 is. I simply followed the manual,
> unpack the tar, configure, make and make install. That's it.
>
> 2. Krzysztof's comments on Apache made me to recall that I probably don't
> have it. I need to check. Would Apache2 web server affect RTSP as well?
> I got the same "connection refused" error when I entered "mplayer
> rtsp//server/..."
>
> 3. Jack, you asked "can he log in across his network and get an Xwindows
> connection on the machine he intends to
> run mplayer on (the server)?  I'd _guess_ this would be a minimum
> requirement."
> I don't understand this question. My goal is to start the mplayer at
> 'workstation' machine, but play a video saved in 'server' machine.
>
> Frank

I misunderstood, forget what I said.  :-)  As an alternative solution,
how about mounting the video directory from the remote machine locally
and playing it from there?  mplayer would think it was local.
Jack
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