[mythtv-users] Mplayer crashes when run from MythVideo

[Ian Forde]

On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 09:32, Chris Cox, N0UK wrote:
> I start up myth from a dedicated xinitrc script, and I too have problems 
> kicking off mplayer from within mythvideo.  I found an old workaround 
> which is to redirect /dev/null into stdin on the command line, but then I 
> lose control of mplayer whilst it's doing its thing.  This is rather an 
> annoyance as I cannot pause, skip, mute, etc during playback.

To debug your situation, exit mythfrontend when it launches, open an
xterm and run mythfrontend from there.  Go into mythvideo and try to
watch movie.  Use Alt-tab to switch back to the xterm and you'll see
what mplayer did...

	-I
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