[vdr] Re: Problem with mplayer plugin

[Juri Haberland <juri@koschikode.com>]

Michael Hoffmann wrote:
> Hallo *,
> my vdr get started by /etc/inittab:
> 
> vdr:235:once:/root/dvb/startvdr.sh
----------^^^^
Shouldn't this be "respawn"?

> startvdr.sh:
> #!/bin/bash
> cd /root/dvb/VDR/
> ./vdr -P "mplayer -M ./mplayer.sh" -c /video/
> 
> VDR is works fine, but the mplayer plugin does not work. If i start a movie 
> with the mplayer plugin the screen turns black for a second, than live video 
> retruns. 
> 
> If i login as root and do:
> killall vdr
> cd /root/dvb/VDR/
> ./vdr -P "mplayer -M ./mplayer.sh" -c /video/
> the mplayer plugin works fine, i can watch all my divx videos.

> Any ideas?

The last time I heard of such a problem it turned out to be a problem
with the environment vars not all set correctly (yet).
Use "set > /tmp/somefile" in both examples and compare the files.

IIRC it was $USER or $HOME not set when using inittab.

Cheers,
Juri



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