[Mplayer-advusers] Can't frontend mplayer?

[Lewin A.R.W. Edwards]

Hi Atmos,

> > If I run mplayer by using "system xterm -e /usr/local/bin/mplayer
> > fred.mpg", it works. Why does it work when run from xterm, but not when run
> > directly within X?
> >
>try system mplayer < /dev/zero

Thank you, that is the solution!



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