[mythtv-users] mythvideo fails to start mplayer

[Greg Oldendick]

On Jan 26, 2004, at 11:52 AM, Tim Gray wrote:

> i am trying to set-up mythvideo to correctly play
> video files.  every time I try to have mythvideo
> launch mplayer it simply hangs there I haveto manually
> switch to a VT and kill the X server to stop
> everything.  when I use mythtv %s instead of mlpayer
> it works (except for seeking causes it to hang)
>
>

Might want to try some of the suggestions listed here:

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