[vdr] Re: error using mplayer and dxr3

[Kai Moeller <moeller.ki@gmx.de>]

On Saturday 05 April 2003 15:06, Seppo Ingalsuo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> >>I think, the first thing to do is to get mplayer playing a video on the
> >>dxr3 directly, like
> >>
> >>killall vdr; mplayer -vo *whatever* -ao *somethingelse* /some/video
> >
> > Ofcourse, playing file with mplayer -vo dxr3 works just fine. When using
> > a simple mplayer.sh script like "mplayer -vo dxr3 -ao oss:/dev/em8300_ma
> > /home/khalid/video/futurama/Futurama_06.mpg" (adding -slave makes no
> > differece) works if I call it directly but does not work is vdr is
> > calling it I the dxr3 device is already in use.
>
> I tried today to add "sudo dxr3_ux_client.pl close" and "sudo
> dxr3_ux_client.pl open" around the mplayer command line execution in the
> end of mplayer.sh. When starting this script during a running vdr it
> works. It is weird that it doesn't work when mplayer plugin starts the
> script.
>
> This perl script is included in the vdr dxr3 plugin. Was it intended for
> this purpose?
>

Yes, to release the dxr3 devices from external programs. Actually the perl 
script is only an example on how to communicate with the dxr3 plugin (because 
I'm too lazy to write a long description :-).

- Kai -


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