[vdr] Re: No Picture shown when playing Video-files through mplayer

["Mike Wanning" <dopey@gmx.de>]

Hi,

after a couple of problems with the audio it works now! Thanks a lot! I
should rtfm in future ;-)

Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tobias" <tobschle@gmx.de>
To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2001 7:40 PM
Subject: [vdr] Re: No Picture shown when playing Video-files through mplayer


>
> Am Sonntag,  2. Dezember 2001 17:27 schrieben Sie:
> > How does your mplayer.sh look like ?
> >
> > Make sure you executed mplayer (OPTIONS) </dev/zero
> >
> > The </dev/zero makes it running even if it was called from VDR running
as
> > background process. Otherwise mplayer will only show it's status but
> > refuses to play unless it's made a foreground process (fg)
>
> not > /dev/zero?
> well, I've tested some other videos form the win98 cd. I can play them
when I
> start mplayer from the console but it looks bad. it is displayed in
> black/white and only in the upper half of the tv.
>
> tobi
>
>