[mythtv-users] Playing a Video freezes the GUI

[Joshua Bernstein]

So now I added that line and the movies play nicely? Why is that line 
nessacary?

A new problem is the after pushing escape after watching a movie the 
GUI becomes un-respondsive.. Any ideas here?

-Josh

> I had a problem like this, it was caused by mplayer didnt pipe the 
> error
> messages correctly. Adding < /dev/null & to the end made mplayer 
> happy. I dont
> know if you have the same problem but it sounds like it.
>
> The line for .divx files would then be:
> divx_helper=mplayer -fs -vm -zoom -nolirc -quiet %s < /dev/null &
>
> Cheers,
> Joel
>
>
Citerar Joshua Bernstein <josh at engr.arizona.edu>:

 > Hey Guys,
 >
 > When I go into the MythVideo program and pushed enter to play a movie.
 > The GUI seems to hang. A CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE does kill the xserver, to
 > recover though. I've verified that my mplayer setting are correct as
 > the movie plays very nicely if I just execute the raw command listed 
in
 > mythvideo-settings.txt
 >
 > I know its just something stupid....
 >
 > -Joshua Bernstein
 > Systems Analyst
 > University of Arizona
 > Tucson, Arizona, USA
-Joshua Bernstein
Systems Analyst
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona, USA