ssh - I want my xwindows to show on the server

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Okay, this is driving me crazy:

I have an x-box running xebian and I want to be able to ssh into it with my laptop or pocket pc and tell vlc or mplayer to play a movie on the x-box. when I start vlc with "vlc -I ncurses" and play AUDIO, it comes out of the TV (connected to the x-box), but when I try to do the same thing with video, it streams a bunch of colored ASCII to the ssh client...

Is there any way to make the x-window (movie) open on the ssh host (x-box)?

thanks.

[ehawk]

Sorry I am not more educated about this, but at least this post will keep your thread current.

Perhaps this will be helpful, perhaps not:

http://www.xbox-linux.org/wiki/Xebia...nfiguring_Xine

I had thought that X11 forwarding was now automatic if it is supported, but you can always specify it by adding the argument -X, as described in the man page

http://www.eos.ncsu.edu/remoteaccess/man/ssh.html

Hope someone can help you.

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thanks for taking a look, I have been all over that xbox-linux website and haven't found anything that's worked.

the problem is that I want to NOT forward X windows, I want them to pop up on the TV the xbox is hooked to.

[cache_return]

I figured it out:
"export DISPLAY=:0"

then something like,
"mplayer -fs movie.avi"
does the trick.

thanks.