[mythtv-users] Mplayer crashes when run from MythVideo
Mark Edwards
mark at edwards.homelinux.net
Sun Oct 26 21:49:03 EST 2003
There was a post a week or so ago somewhat related to this... basically, if
you are ever launching mythfrontend a-la:
mythfrontend &
then don't, as mplayer doesn't like it.
HTH
Mark.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian Forde" <ian at duckland.org>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 7:26 AM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Mplayer crashes when run from MythVideo
> 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
> --
> __________________________________
> Ian Forde, RHCE, CCSE, SCNA, SCDME
> CYTBeN, Inc.
> ian at duckland.org / ian at cytben.com
>
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