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Playing a Video freezes the GUI
So now I added that line and the movies play nicely? Why is that line
nessacary?

A new problem is the after pushing escape after watching a movie the
GUI becomes un-respondsive.. Any ideas here?

-Josh

> I had a problem like this, it was caused by mplayer didnt pipe the
> error
> messages correctly. Adding < /dev/null & to the end made mplayer
> happy. I dont
> know if you have the same problem but it sounds like it.
>
> The line for .divx files would then be:
> divx_helper=mplayer -fs -vm -zoom -nolirc -quiet %s < /dev/null &
>
> Cheers,
> Joel
>
>
Citerar Joshua Bernstein <josh@engr.arizona.edu>:

> Hey Guys,
>
> When I go into the MythVideo program and pushed enter to play a movie.
> The GUI seems to hang. A CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE does kill the xserver, to
> recover though. I've verified that my mplayer setting are correct as
> the movie plays very nicely if I just execute the raw command listed
in
> mythvideo-settings.txt
>
> I know its just something stupid....
>
> -Joshua Bernstein
> Systems Analyst
> University of Arizona
> Tucson, Arizona, USA
-Joshua Bernstein
Systems Analyst
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona, USA