[mythtv] mythvideo/mplayer hang news

[Mark Musone]

this is because mplayer runs and accepts input from stdin.


try redirecting stdin to /dev/null: i.e.


mplayer -myflags < /dev/null &


i actually have an mplayer wrapper that cleans up a lot of that stuff.. i'll try to send it to the list


-Mark

On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 06:59:36PM +0100, Joel Larsson wrote:
> Too bad this didnt solve it for me :( , anyway I have done some more 
> testing on my machine, and it seems like mplayer just stopped working in 
> X, no matter which output im using it always hang. I tested and put 
> mplayer in the xinitrc so it shoudl start up when i run startx but it 
> actually hangs. But when starting mplayer on the console it works. Its 
> pretty strange.
> 
> //Joel
> 
> Drew Bernat wrote:
> 
> >Now this is weird.
> >
> >I'd previously had the same problem with mythvideo and mplayer --
> >selecting a movie resulted in a hang in mplayer. However, that problem has
> >gone away, at least temporarily.
> >
> >I rebooted.
> >
> >Anyone know why a reboot would fix mplayer? As before, running it from
> >within mythvideo hung, but running from the command line worked.
> >
> >Very odd.
> >
> >Drew
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> 
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