[mythtv-users] Mplayer crashes when run from MythVideo

[Jim Paris]

> 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.

Possibly because it tries to use stdin as input, and causes a SIGTTIN
to be sent to the process?  Try

mythfrontend </dev/null &

and it will probably work better.

-jim