[mythtv-users] Has anyone figured out how to foreground mplayer?

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Friday 28 January 2005 16:03, Mike Green wrote:
> I am running mythtv 0.16, mythdvd, and mythvideo.  No window manager, 
just 
> launch mythfrontend on bootup via my .xinitrc.  I am not using lirc, I 
went 
> the wireless keyboard with universal learning remote route.
> 
> I can run mplayer directly from .xinitrc instead of mythfrontend and 
the 
> remote works fine.  Launching a video from mythdvd or mythvideo 
launches 
> mplayer fullscreen, but my remote will not work.  Alt tab won't work 
since 
> there is no window manager.  My launch command is:
> 
> mplayer -fs -zoom -quiet -vo x11 -ao alsa %s
> 
> I have tried variations of the -fstype argument (above, fullscreen, 
> stays_on_top, etc...).
> 
> Is there some sort of app-default property I can set in X or 
something?

Is the only problem that your remote isn't working?  I'll bet you're 
using irxevent to control things, aren't you?  MPlayer has built-in 
lirc support, so if you set up a .lircrc file for it, then you won't 
have to worry about whether the window has focus in order for it to get 
LIRC events.  I think Jarod might even have a sample MPlayer .lircrc on 
his site.

Also, not that it's related, but why are you using "-vo x11" in your 
command line?  Unless you're using a PVR-350 for output, or some other 
video card that doesn't support Xv, you probably want "-vo xv".  
Running "mplayer -vo help" will list all available output methods.  
Some other good ones might be xvmc (for hardware-accelerated MPEG-2 
decoding, if your card has it), gl, gl2, dga, or sdl.  Any of those, I 
think, will give you hardware-accelerated 2D video scaling; the 'x11' 
output method will not, IIUC.  By using "-vo x11" you're forcing your 
CPU to do the scaling instead of your video card.

-JAC