[MPlayer-users] Starting mplayer from inittab breaks slave mode

[Roguedr]

This looked very promising. However I saw the same behavior, started
from the interactive login it works but does not work if started from
inittab. I'm starting to wonder if there is a bug with the specific
build.

R

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Krzysztof Duchnowski <amidk75 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 29.03.2012 07:53, Roguedr wrote:
>> Not sure if this is a mplayer issue or some misunderstanding about how
>> linux works.
>
>
> you must put mplayer in some sort of terminal that will work no matter
> what, eg. screen or tmux (i prefer tmux lately):
>
> for root user:
>> $ mp:2345:respawn:/usr/bin/tmux -new -d -s 'mplayer_slave' -n 'MPlayer slave' '/usr/bin/mplayer -idle'
>
> for normal user:
>> $ mp:2345:respawn:/usr/bin/sudo -u username /usr/bin/tmux -new -d -s 'mplayer_slave' -n 'MPlayer slave' '/usr/bin/mplayer -idle'
>
>
> After that, if you want to see what mplayer spill to console you invoke:
>> $ sudo -u username tmux -2u attach -t 'mplayer_slave'
>
> then CTRL+SHIFT+a and 'd' will unattach you from it.
>
>
> You could do it in rc.local as well and in case that no one can attach
> to root pipes then run it as a user (make mplayer user for that).
>
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