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

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

I have the same problem :-(

Did you find any solution, yet ?

Martin.

(sorry, i couldn't find enought time to test this earlier)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Juergen Scherer" <juergen.scherer@gmx.de>
To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2001 4:08 PM
Subject: [vdr] Mplayer can only play in foreground process


> Hello list,
> 
> just a quick asking for confirmation:
> 
> My mplayer script is only working if the calling process (vdr)
> is running in a foreground process. No playback will take place if the
> parent process is running in background.
> 
> As soon as it is turned to foreground again  (by eg. an "fg"),
> playing starts at once.
> 
> Is this only my problem ?
> (I tried with the sample mplayer.sh and some
> modifications to play divx4-files and to do a "-quiet", but no success
> yet...)
> 
> If someone else has a working configuratition, could you mail me your
> mplayer.sh ?
> 
> 
>   
> 
> Greetings,
>  Juergen                          mailto:juergen.scherer@gmx.de
> 
> 
>