Gnome-mplayer supports many media formats and is very lightweight - runs smoothly on a low end machines. A nice feature of this player is that it can be controlled remotely via ssh using dbus commands.
Using dbus commands over SSH has many advantages:
- SSH is secure
- Can access files and folders
- Easy to implement (thanks to libssh2 library)
I made a simple Qt project to demonstrate remote control for gnome-mplayer using dbus commands over ssh. The project source code for this Media SSH Remote Control with Qt and libssh2 can be found here.
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