how would one go about playing a film over the lan over ssh?

[lysergicacid]

im hoping to be able to use the tvout card in another computer on my lan to be able to watch films mounted off my main comps samba server onto it, ive got the files mounted onto the tvout comp and would like to be able to do this via ssh prefferable with one script as the comp with the tvcard in it only has a tv connected to it no monitor no mouse no keyboard, i was hoping something like this

[donjuan]

on telnet I've found it's really simple, just do:
$ xhost +server
$ telnet server
$ <type name of program here>

then it runs...so if you feel good enough about your LAN's security you might want to do that. It's what they do at my school, and telnet only works if I'm on a computer that's part of the domain.

But if you want to use ssh still, which is probably the better way to go about it, I've found this info from http://bengal-dev.missouri.edu/~guillena/xwinsec.html:

Step 1. The user grants access to the X server to the remote machine, where the X client is going to be run.

xserver.host> xhost +xclient.host

Step 2. The user connects to a remote machine (the X client).

xserver.host> ssh -X xclient.host -l arturo

Step 3. The user sets the DISPLAY environmental variable (or alternatively use the -display switch in the X client call).

xclient.host> setenv DISPLAY xserver.host:0.0

Step 4. The user runs a X client application.

xclient.host> xclock &

At this point, even though the application is running in xclient.host, the output (a window with a clock in it) is displayed in xserver.host.

I have no idea how well sound will work though it as what I've done so far is on a Sun Solaris terminal with no speakers or headphones.

I've also found this bunch of info: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=45579&highlight=
There was another one that I lost track of, so you can probably find info about X and ssh in a few other threads.

[lysergicacid]

thanks for the help this isnt really the way i wana go about it, ideally i want to have a script on local comp that both starts fluxbox and opens film in fullscreen on the remote comp, might have to go another way round tho as this is proving difficult.

cheers for your input
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