On 08/02/2018 10:16, Michael Schütz wrote:
> A. Dumas  schrieb:
>> On 08/02/2018 08:01, Michael Schütz wrote:
>>> I'm logged in via ssh. When I start the vlc (vlc file.m2ts) it trys to
>>> play the video in the terminal. There is nothing at the hdmi port. The
>>> omxplayer plays over hdmi.
>>
>> Yeah, omxplayer writes directly to the framebuffer ("video RAM"), vlc to
>> the regular screen. On ssh, you are not attached to the regular screen,
>> so you need to tell vlc to use it. Try this, not tested:
>>
>> DISPLAY=:0 vlc file.m2ts
>
> It failed.

"Thanks for your reply. Interesting idea, I didn't know about the
DISPLAY environment variable. Unfortunately, it didn't work. Perhaps the
syntax is not right, I will try and google some more info. Cheers."

Asshole.

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