allen47401
August 16th, 2012, 07:22 PM
I’m running xrdp on an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Desktop) machine and administering it remotely with a Windows 7 machine. The Linux machine is setup headless in my entertainment center as a media and file server. Well, almost headless. Its HDMI output is connected to my TV. Its sound is connected to an amplifier and speakers, which plays audio files, both local and web based nicely.
Now that those things were working, the next step was to set it up to play video files and send them out to the TV. That’s where I’m stuck. I haven’t found a way to make it play video on the Linux monitor (my TV) when accessing Linux remotely using xrdp from my Windows machine. Instead, all video plays on my Windows machine.
If I connect a keyboard and mouse up to the Linux box and play a video from there, it, of course, works fine, but that defeats my purpose.
You may be wondering why I installed the Ubuntu Desktop version instead of the Server version. Well, I did at first, but I couldn’t get the server version to enable sound, Blue Tooth or the DVD, at least running headless.
Is xrdp just too simplistic to allow me to do redirect the Linux video output? Or is there some other way to redirect video from my Windows machine back to the Linux machine? It seems ironic I have just the opposite situation with sound. I can’t force Linux to redirect sound away from it to my Windows machine. Not a big deal, since I want sound to play on the Linux box anyway.
Thanks for any suggestions
Now that those things were working, the next step was to set it up to play video files and send them out to the TV. That’s where I’m stuck. I haven’t found a way to make it play video on the Linux monitor (my TV) when accessing Linux remotely using xrdp from my Windows machine. Instead, all video plays on my Windows machine.
If I connect a keyboard and mouse up to the Linux box and play a video from there, it, of course, works fine, but that defeats my purpose.
You may be wondering why I installed the Ubuntu Desktop version instead of the Server version. Well, I did at first, but I couldn’t get the server version to enable sound, Blue Tooth or the DVD, at least running headless.
Is xrdp just too simplistic to allow me to do redirect the Linux video output? Or is there some other way to redirect video from my Windows machine back to the Linux machine? It seems ironic I have just the opposite situation with sound. I can’t force Linux to redirect sound away from it to my Windows machine. Not a big deal, since I want sound to play on the Linux box anyway.
Thanks for any suggestions