[mythtv-users] Mplayer plays underneath mythtv window

[Jon]

On Mar 12, 2008, at 9:53 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:

> 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
>

I use the xine setting from the wiki, and it works excellent for me.

xine -pfhqq --no-splash