[vdr] Re: Notes on playing DVDs using mplayer plugin

[Martin Fischer <martin.fischer@teamspace.de>]

On Sunday 22 June 2003 21:12, Juri Haberland wrote:

> The plugin calls the mplayer.sh and stores the PID. If you press the blue
> butten the plugin uses 'kill' with the PID of the mplayer.sh script to
> kill mplayer. That's why the script must call mplayer with 'exec' so that
> mplayer replaces the script and therefor gets the same PID.

I see, thank you very much ...but...

> Are you running VDR as a special user and not as root? If so, your user
> has no rights to read or *write* to /dev/dvd.

I'm running as root so there should be no problems with rights. Starting this
script manually works fine, starting it with the mplayer plugins gives me an
error message. I tried compiling mplayer statically to prevent any library
side effects but that didn't change anything.

Martin



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