[mythtv-users] mythvideo - mplayer focus problem

[Stephen Tait]

Well, not the same problem, and not a solution, but I too have problems 
with mPlayer's focus in MythVideo. I'm using fluxbox as my WM, using sloppy 
focus (i.e. point to focus) and when a movie is played, it plays back fine, 
but it seems that there is no control of the screen - I can't stop, fast 
forward, rewind or do any of the usual mPlayer switches. If I ssh in and 
kill -9 mPlayer, all of the key presses I pressed whilst the movie was 
playing get echoed all at once to the Myth interface, with the result that 
it goes utterly crazy. I'm going to try MythVid out with Xine (since it 
seems to have better support for OGM files in my experience), but in the 
meantime does anyone know what's causing these irritations? I've tried 
running frontend from the CLI, but it doesn't report any obtuse error.

In case it's relevant, GFX card is an nVidia with the closed drivers, and 
for the moment the movies are running with the default mplayer command 
MythVid ships with (so the problem might be usnig the xv option...?)

Will post back any positive tweakery...

At 22:42 06/05/2004 +0200, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>First of all I would like to thank you all for this wonderfull piece of 
>software... works great on my MSI Mega 180 (nforce 2 based).
>
>However I still have one little but annoying problem. When using 
>mythvideo, some of my movies don't play correctly. I can hear sound put 
>the image changes constantly between mythvideo an the movie in mplayer. It 
>is not related to some special files, because every time some other files 
>cause this problem. With some chance I can get click on the mplayer, and 
>after that it stays on top and the movie plays fine.... so I suppose there 
>seems to be some focus problem?
>
>I used Jarod's guide to install mythtv, and I also configured that focus 
>follows mouse thing in KDE.
>
>Does somebody know a solution to that problem? connecting a mouse (to 
>click the mplayer windows) to the pvr doesn't help to make it "wife-proof" ;-)
>
>greetings
>Jang Lemmer
>--
>Master Computer Club Luxembourg Asbl:     Mozilla op lëtzebuergesch:
>http://www.mccl.lu                        http://www.lemmer.lu/~mozilla
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