[mythtv-users] Interesting mythvideo and mplayer behavior

[Kevin D. Lenth]

> 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.

I think this has to do with MPlayer not playing stuff if stdout isn't a
TTY -- e.g., "mplayer [whatever] &" won't actually play anything unless and
until it's foregrounded.

      --Kevin Lenth