Have you intalled a GUI?
If you have it, look for gmplayer. I havn't use it, but it seems to work.
2007/12/17, Andrew Malcolmson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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> On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:00:10 -0500 (EST), "Andrew Perrin"
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> > On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, Andrew Malcolmson wrote:
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> > > I want to xforward mplayer, but when I run it from my remote ssh
> > > session, it runs in its console mode.
> > >
> > > Is there any way to force it to run as a GUI application so it will
> > > appear in my local X session? I don't see this in the MPlayer docs.
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> > Have you tried an explicit -display option? Note that you may have
> > trouble
> > with (a) audio on the remote machine; and (b) some of the rendering
> > engines will probably not work right through a remote X server.
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> Setting the DISPLAY option didn't do hit, but I did see the answer:
> mplayer has startup options in the man page not shown in the console
> 'mplayer --help' where I looked.
>
> -gui forces startup in GUI mode.
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