How to use xine from within ssh session

greengrocer · 01-30-2009, 11:58 PM

Hi everybody,

I am trying to run xine on a computer connected to my LAN using SSH and issuing commands from my laptop computer (think remote control).

The media I want to be running through xine is MPG

I can ssh in successfully, but when i try a command such as:

xine /path/filename.mpg

I get "Cannot open Display" error.

Does anybody here know how to do this correctly?

Regards,
Greengrocer

syg00 · 01-31-2009, 12:25 AM

"ssh -X ..." (capital X) - see the manpage. Will probably require some config changes as well.

fotoguy · 01-31-2009, 01:35 AM

Sounds like an Xserver error, usually you get this when you try to open a gui application when the machine is running in runlevel 3 (command line mode), or as a different user, other than the one currently logged in to the graphical environment.

On the remote machine make sure your graphical environment is running and you are logged in as a user, then log in through ssh as that same user then try the command again.

greengrocer · 01-31-2009, 02:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by syg00

"ssh -X ..." (capital X) - see the manpage. Will probably require some config changes as well.

Thanks for the reply syg00. If I use the -X switch, then the video output is sent accross the LAN to the computer which I want to use as a remote control. Not really the intended behavior I was looking for with the video output.

Any other ideas?

Quote:

Originally Posted by fotoguy

On the remote machine make sure your graphical environment is running and you are logged in as a user, then log in through ssh as that same user then try the command again.

Yep I was using same user for ssh session as was logged in on the remote server.

I guess the problem will be that I am issuing the command from a different run level in a secure shell session.

Note that I get exactly the same behavior if I simply switch to another tty using CTRL+ALT+1 on the server computer and type:

xine /path/file.mpg

greengrocer · 01-31-2009, 02:59 AM

Some progress...

If I switch to TTY1 (CTRL+ALT+F1) and then do the following:

Code:

export DISPLAY=:0
xine -V xv /path/file.mpg

Playback begins but every 10 seconds my TTY1 has this message appearing:

Code:

gnome-screensaver-message: Failed to connect to the DBUS daemon:

Anybody have any ideas how to satisfy that error so that it does not occur?

A.Thyssen · 02-01-2009, 05:27 PM

I suggest you ignore it. Gnome loves to output these types of errors and they are a pain, but there is little you can do about it.

It would be caused by XINE attempting to ensure that the screen saver does not start while playing a video.

One solution may be to find the right environment variable GNOME sets, and pass it to xine, so it can make contact with the gnome server running on that display.