[MPlayer-users] input fifo file in background

[Jerry Geis]

On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 03:13:46PM -0500, Jerry Geis wrote:
>/ I wish to run mplayer similiar to:
/>/ "mplayer -quiet -input file=/tmp/fifo -loop 0 video.mpg &"
/>/ 
/>/ If I run without the "&" it works - as soon as I put the "&" on
/>/ the command it gives me an error about /dev/rtc.
/
>You'll need to show us the output. IMO the rtc thing is irrelevant.

>Rich

THe error was 

Failed to open /dev/rtc: device or resource busy.

Jerry