OT: video player with controls on other monitor

[Victor Odhner]

Thanks, Aaron!

Wow. Mpv is a great improvement over QuickTime, to say the least. Works beautifully.

And I can take this to Linux or apparently even Windows.

I learned that I can watch progress by seconds in the command line, and start/stop it at will, in a keystroke, without moving the pointer into the audience’s view. That barely scratches the surface of things you can do from the command line: you name it, they’ve got it. But it may be all I need.

Mac Install: https://coalgirls.wakku.to/faq/playback/compiling-mpv-on-mac-os-x <https://coalgirls.wakku.to/faq/playback/compiling-mpv-on-mac-os-x> (It worked, in spite of “errors”)

Manpage: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/mpv.1.html <http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/mpv.1.html>  ( > 8k lines )

Thanks again,
Victor
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On Sep 17, 2017, at 22:01:56, Aaron Jones <retro64xyz at gmail.com> wrote:

Mpv from the command line. 

Then all the controls work off the command line or the minimal gui. 

> On Sep 17, 2017, at 5:22 PM, Victor Odhner <vodhner at cox.net> wrote:
> 
> Is there a video player that can display a video on one monitor (a projector), with the control bar on the other monitor?
> 
> Keyboard controls help, but for example I want to see where I am in the program, and if it’s running, if in a static splash screen. Also, a visual control bar is friendlier if a non-techie is running it, but we don’t want to clutter the movie.
> 
> My usual search expression vocabulary has abandoned me in this case, maybe because the feature I’m looking for is not of interest for most users so doesn’t get mentioned in reviews.
> 
> I’m doing it on a Macbook, but I might try a Linux guest (or even windows as last resort) if that’s the only answer.
> 
> Thanks,
> Victor Odhner
> 
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