[mythtv] Re: MythDVD (mplayer) locks when displayed on 2nd X server

Rick Warner rick at sapphire.no-ip.com
Sat Sep 13 15:50:06 EDT 2003


On Tuesday 12 August 2003 02:30 pm, Michael Thomson wrote:
> Hi Thor
>
> Thanks for the suggestions, but it turns out that -vo xv wasn't the culprit
> either.
>
> If I used xinit to start a konsole, I can run mythfrontend from that and
> subsequently mythdvd and mplayer... So I suspect some sort of environment
> problem?
>
> Anyway, I changed the script to read:
> > #!/bin/sh
> > xinit /usr/bin/konsole -e /usr/local/bin/mythfrontend -- :1 -ac +bs
> > -xf86config XF86Config-TVonly
>
> At last I can play DVDs on the TV! Now if I can work out why mplayer is
> ignoring keyboard and mouse events, I'm sorted!
>
> Cheers
> Mike
I did something similar to this way before i started using mythtv.  Even 
without mythtv in the picture, i had to start mplayer from an xterm for it to 
work (using the -e option like you did to start mplayer)..  I think mplayer 
just needs a console to output to to work properly...



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