[mythtv-users] Mplayer crashes when run from MythVideo

[Mark Edwards]

There was a post a week or so ago somewhat related to this... basically, if
you are ever launching mythfrontend a-la:

mythfrontend &

then don't, as mplayer doesn't like it.

HTH
Mark.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ian Forde" <ian at duckland.org>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 7:26 AM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Mplayer crashes when run from MythVideo


> On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 09:32, Chris Cox, N0UK wrote:
> > I start up myth from a dedicated xinitrc script, and I too have problems
> > kicking off mplayer from within mythvideo.  I found an old workaround
> > which is to redirect /dev/null into stdin on the command line, but then
I
> > lose control of mplayer whilst it's doing its thing.  This is rather an
> > annoyance as I cannot pause, skip, mute, etc during playback.
>
> To debug your situation, exit mythfrontend when it launches, open an
> xterm and run mythfrontend from there.  Go into mythvideo and try to
> watch movie.  Use Alt-tab to switch back to the xterm and you'll see
> what mplayer did...
>
> -I
> -- 
>                        __________________________________
>                        Ian Forde, RHCE, CCSE, SCNA, SCDME
>                        CYTBeN, Inc.
>                        ian at duckland.org / ian at cytben.com
>
>


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