Networked Display in Mplayer

cyberFISH · 05-14-2004, 09:53 PM

Mplayer lists a " -display " option which i believe redirects the X output onto another X server.

Basically i have a old pentium1 laptop and (slightly faster) pentium4 desktop, what i would like to be able to do is run mplayer on the p4 but put the -display to the laptops X server so the output is on the laptop but being decoded on the p4.

Has ne one tried this before as i get access denied errors to the laptops X server, so allowing access would be the first step, unforts i have no idea how to do that!!!!

~mat

Code:

mplayer -display 10.0.0.5:0 blah.avi
     v    v    v    v    v
Xlib: connection to "10.0.0.5:0.0" refused by server
Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
vo: couldn't open the X11 display (10.0.0.5:0)!
Xlib: connection to "10.0.0.5:0.0" refused by server
Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
vo: couldn't open the X11 display (10.0.0.5:0)!
VO XOverlay need a subdriver
Xlib: connection to "10.0.0.5:0.0" refused by server
Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
vo: couldn't open the X11 display (10.0.0.5:0)!
Xlib: connection to "10.0.0.5:0.0" refused by server
Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
vo: couldn't open the X11 display (10.0.0.5:0)!
Xlib: connection to "10.0.0.5:0.0" refused by server
Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
vo: couldn't open the X11 display (10.0.0.5:0)!

Tinkster · 05-14-2004, 11:23 PM

Try :0.0 ... and make sure that the pentium allows
other hosts to connect ... xhost +<name of P4>

But really ... what's the point if the sound doesn't
come along? :)

/me has a feeling of deja-vu

Cheers,
Tink

cyberFISH · 05-16-2004, 12:48 AM

thx Tinkster,

that did it, the reasoning behind it is that wanted to be able to watch films on my laptop screen whilst doing work on my main one, ok a rather extreme way of getting dual screens!

however the p1 doesn't have a dvd drive or is even close to being fast enough to decode video codex, however if i get the p4 to do the grunt work then just bring up the display on the other xserver it kinda works, although i had to do a "-framedrop -double" to get the picture and audio to run smoothly.

~mat