I have a pretty delicate challenge today. I have 2 pcs here. One running the latest Parsix and one Debian server connected to my tv.

I SSH to the Debian machine and type:
# export DISPLAY=:0
# mplayer movie.avi

and it shows up beautifully on my tv. I can even control most settings for mplayer through keyboard shortcuts directly on the ssh client.(ffwd, rew, vol+, vol- etc.)

However..the routine to first ssh into the server and then run the export display and then find the file++ is kinda difficult for my girlfriend to manage(I haven't even bothered teaching her ; )

So, I wonder..any tips on how to automate this? A Nautilus script would be ideal..I've tried fiddling a little with it, but I just seem to lack the skills. My bashscript-knowledge is very, very limited. A way to right click a movie on the servers samba-share and select "play with media player on tv" would be amazing.

Can you help me find the right direction for solving this matter?

Thanks for reading!
-gejr-

I don't know the exact syntax but, you can run commands from the
ssh login command. Something like

ssh -2C -l username server.com -O YourCommand

look at the man page you could probably create a bash script to do this and create some shortcut
in the command line.