[MPlayer-users] xinit

[Dine]

black screen would suggest mplayer cannot start and is hung, but xorg has
started.  When you kill mplayer it will yield and xorg will realise there
is no more work to be done and quit, leaving you at the terminal that
launched it (the messages your seeing are just the tail of the boot log and
not related to anything)

if you use xinit with no login manager then the issue is probably down to
permissions.

If you are specifying the loop option then this will cause mplayer to
appear to hang if it errors, as it will continue to retry.

try redirecting stderr and stdout somewhere you can see it

mplayer video.avi 2&>1 >/tmp/mplayer.log