[MPlayer-users] Why mplayer can't run in background ?

[Arpi]

Hi,

these aren't standard features for a movie player...

try to remoce getch2_ functions from source and recompile. it
should solve terminal problems...

change filename in vo_png.c or add a new option...

> Hi pals !
> 
> 	I'm trying to run mplayer 0.50 inside of a PHP program in a Linux RH 7.1 to
> perform histogram analysis of the pictures that compose a movie (detecting
> scenes change). Since the script has to run long time I decided to try in
> the shell (bash) first:
> 
> $ mplayer -vo png -nosound -quiet /tmp/CC-CS.MPG
> 
> 
> 	And it worked perfectly generating the 70 PNGs I need to analyze. But
> shortly I tried:
> 
> $ mplayer -vo png -nosound -quiet /tmp/CC-CS.MPG &
> ... movie stats...
> [1]+  Stopped                 mplayer -vo png -quiet CC-CS.MPG
> 
> 
> 	Surprise! it asks for an input from stdin after displaying the stats of
> that movie. Neither kill -SIGCONT works...
> 
> 	Also I'm trying to give a particular name to the output PNGs, but always is
> 00000001.png, 00000002.png and so on... Any help is appreciated
> 
> 
> 				Excuse my poor english, TIA, Dinko
> 
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