Opening Movie player on TV screen

i have my tv hooked up and working and can play movies on it. it is a seperate x screen "screen 1" i have a script that starts a new openbox session on the new screen when needed. i was woundering if i could get my movie player to open on that screen and perferably in a way that a can pass a movie file to the script and then have it open on my tv, and then when the movie player closes kill the openbox session.

export DISPLAY=:0.1 && mplayer $1

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I am a big fan of Nokia and i know Windows phone is the world best smart phone.im using Lumia 820. but in my highend Lumia devices lack of a
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Hi, I'm not sure if this issue has been dealt with yet; however, I can't open movie files contained in emails or in my Safari Browser--even ones labeled as QT files. I am running Quick Time 7.0.4 on my 10.3.9 eMac. This is a recent problem, as I didn't have this difficulty until the last month or so. I had unchecked the "Open Safe Files" box in Safari's preferences some time ago as a precaution against a virus/worm, but rechecked it after the last one or two Security Updates. What else should I do to resume opening movie files? QT Player runs just fine with movie trailers, etc, but not in mails or the browser.
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