[MPlayer-users] running mplayer as background process ?

[Gábor Lénárt]

On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 10:48:07PM +0100, Martin Hoffmann wrote:
> i'm trying to call mplayer from a shell script which runs in the
> background. Mplayer starts but waits until its turned into foreground (fg)
> - otherwise it will not play :-( Is there a way to make mplayer work in
> the background ? I don't need it's output on the console and i control it
> via lirc - so i don't want it in the foreground :-)
> 
> Anyone ?

What about something similar:

mplayer valamivan.avi </dev/zero >/dev/null 2>/dev/null

Simple UNIX power ...
Sorry if I missunderstand your problem ...

- Gabor