[vdr] Re: Mplayer can only play in foreground process

["Martin Hoffmann" <ma.hoff@t-online.de>]

Not for me :-(

But i found out that exec mplayer $OPTS -vc $VC "$FILE"  </dev/zero seems to
work !
So, the problem is solved :-)

And with this you still have the output from mplayer, so that you can see,
why a  certain avi refused to play or something ...

Thanks!

Martin.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Juergen Scherer" <juergen.scherer@gmx.de>
To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2001 7:00 PM
Subject: [vdr] Re: Mplayer can only play in foreground process


>
> Am Sonntag, 18. November 2001 um 6:15:03 PM schrieb Thilo Wunderlich:
>
> >> Does anyone know how to call a program and force it into the
> > foreground,
> >> even if the calling application runs in background ? Something like
> > "mplayer
> >> &" but the other way around !?
>
> > Did you try in mplayer.sh
>
> > exec $MPLAYER $OPTS -vc $VC "$FILE" >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
>
> > does this help ?
>
> Yes, it does, ('though I am not Martin).
>
> Now just a bit of performance optimizing in mplayer (a 933Mhz PIII gives
> some framedrops) and this would be the ultimate multimedia machine.
>
>
>
>
> Greetings,
>  Juergen
>  mailto:juergen.scherer@gmx.de
>
>
>