[mythtv-users] Interesting mythvideo and mplayer behavior

[Michael J. Sherman]

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"