[mythtv-users] Mplayer plays underneath mythtv window

[Michael T. Dean]

On 03/12/2008 12:23 PM, David Brodbeck wrote:
> On Mar 11, 2008, at 11:00 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>   
>> For those filetypes for which the Internal player doesn't work, use
>> xine.  This isn't a joking suggestion.  It's what I did before the
>> Internal player got good filetype support (and it never had the
>> layer-placement problems that MPlayer did...
>>     
> Thanks, I'll give that a try.  The internal player works great for me  
> on everything except Realvideo files and some Quicktime formats.  Out  
> of three systems I've set up, two have had layer-placement problems  
> with mplayer for reasons I've not been able to discern, so it'd be  
> nice to be able to get away from that.

Yeah.  That was the crazy thing.  I really couldn't find any reason why 
it occurred on some, but not all systems.

Good luck with xine.  I'd recommend something like:  xine --auto-play=fhq

Mike