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

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 12:01:47PM +0100, Tom Evans wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Roguedr <roguedr at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have tried that too and it does not seem to be the case. Also tried
> > providing full access rights to the pipe and changing pipe ownership
> > to nobody. Still no luck.
> >
> > Started from command line it works no matter what, starting from a
> > background process it does not get attached to the pipe.
> >
> > Any further hints?
> >
> 
> I start mplayer in slave and idle mode, reading from a fifo, from
> .xinitrc without issues.
> 
> I don't put the slave or input switches in the config file though, I run:
> 
> /usr/local/bin/mplayer -idle -slave -input file=/home/tom/.mplayer/cmd.fifo

You always should be using -noconsolecontrols for this kind of setup.