[mythtv-users] Mplayer crashes when run from MythVideo

[Greg Oldendick]

>
> Ok, I have a problem with running mplayer from MythVideo. From the 
> shell prompt, mplayer works fine, but crashes when run from MythVideo 
> with exactly the same arguments passed to it. This is using the 
> current 0.12 release, but I have had the same problem with 0.11.
>  
> Any ideas?
>  

Are you running mythfrontend from the command line like this:

mythfrontend &

If so, don't =).  Whenever I did that mplayer wouldn't launch from
mythvideo.