[MPlayer-users] tried to run mplayer in another display... but doesn't work...

[Steve Stavropoulos]

On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, ΌΊΑψ Seong Jin ΑΆ Cho wrote:

> i tried to run mplayer in another xserver(for performance...) but it doesn't

 I can't see how this is going to affect performance. Maybe it would if
you started ONE Xserver only with mplayer playing alone.


> work...
>
> i used the command:
>
> xinit mplayer -display :1 -fs movie.avi -- :1 -xf86config <config file>
> (i ran this command in xterm which is running on :0 and :0 is running
> gnome...)
>

 man xinit
Switch to a console and write:
xinit /usr/local/bin/mplayer [mplayer parameteres] movie.avi -- :1 [more
parameters for the X server]