[mythtv-users] Interesting mythvideo and mplayer behavior
Michael J. Sherman
msherman at dsbox.com
Sun Jul 6 14:26:50 EDT 2003
I was having an issue with mplayer stalling after being launched from
within mythvideo. If I took the mplayer command and ran it from an
xterm, it would work fine, but when run from mythvideo, mplayer would
hang after all the lirc initialization but before the actual video
loading/playing.
The command to play the videos I was using was:
mplayer -fs -zoom -vo xv %s
All I did to make this finally work in mythvideo last night was change
that setting to:
xterm -e mplayer -fs -zoom -vo xv %s
And now mythvideo launches the player just fine by having the xterm
launch it. When you exit mplayer, the xterm will exit. Given that the
xterm launches it fine, it's probably a library path issue that I'm
trying to track down. But it works for now.
Just thought I'd throw this out because I know a few other people were
having issues with mplayer hanging, and this was the workaround that I
came up with.
-Mike
P.S. - The PurpleGalaxy theme has been updated to Myth 0.10 (program
rankings). Until it's up on mythtv.org, you can grab the updated
tarball from my page here:
http://stealthboy.com/pvr_contrib.php
--
Michael J. Sherman | Software Developer | Digital Sandbox, Inc.
"There are 10 types of people in the world - those who know binary
and those who don't"
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