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

[Mike Green]

> Is the only problem that your remote isn't working? I'll bet you're 
> using irxevent to control things, aren't you?

No, I am not using anything related to lirc whatsover.  It is a remote 
keyboard type deal.  It has a base radio receiver that plugs into the 
keyboard/mouse ports.  Only in my case, the keyboard is a universal 
learning remote that I have keyed everything into.  My actual mythtv has 
worked flawlessly for over a year, there are no problems with the remote 
setup...  The remote also works just fine when I run mplayer outside of 
mythtv.

I have implemented a temporary workaround that is a real kludge, something 
along the lines of:

#!/bin/sh
chvt 8 &
X :1 vt 8 &
export display=:1
mplayer -fs -zoom -quiet -vo x11 -ao alsa "$*"
kill -9 `cat /tmp/.X1.lock`
chvt 7 &

I then call this script from mythtv.  It is ugly as hell but it works for 
now.  After a while the graphics in mythfrontend get corrupted and the 
screen does not redraw itself correctly, so it is not a permanent 
solution...

> 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.

I am using the tv-out port on an nvidia GeForce2 MX 400 to watch tv.  I 
can't recall exactly why I am not using xv, but I think it had to do with 
no xv support on the tv-out port on the card, or something like that :)

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