On Thursday 06 February 2003 05:22 pm, D Richard Felker III wrote:
I can't tell who wrote what in this email, the quoting appears to be messed up... Anyway, ...
ok, I'll clear this up. I have a "mediabox" connected to my stereo for listening to mp3's, watching/listening to live internet streams, etc. I have mplayer setup on it and would like to be able to run mplayer "http://www.live365.com/play/293353?membername=&session=kxlu1%3A0&SaneID=24.195.6.180-1039828265927&lid=511-usa" in the background. Actually, I have a script, that will automatically restart if it exits for some reason(stream is lost or whatever) and I'd like to have this script run in the background. This way I can ssh in, run the script and logout and still have the script run. I'm using a Hollywood+ so I don't need X stuff(ie. i don't create a video window, its all output to my tv through my H+) just the command line interface. Thanks! --Steven Adeff
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 05:07:53PM -0500, Steven Adeff wrote:
[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html] I have a mediabox near my stereo that i use as an mp3 server, and to listen to and watch internet streams. I have a radio station I'd like to be able to play the stream and log out and have the stream continue to play. I tried just using nohup and that didn't work so then I searched the archives and found the post Gabor made a while back. I tried his method but this doesn't work either. is there a way I can run mplayer "http://www.live365.com/play/293353?membername=&session=kxlu1%3A0&SaneID= 24.195.6.180-1039828265927&lid=511-usa"
in the background and be able to log out from my ssh session and still have it run?
Best way imho is to learn how to use screen. (man screen)
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
^^^^^^^^^
Huh? Do you really want to spam mplayer's stdin with an infinite stream of \0's? This sounds like a very bad idea! </dev/null would make much more sense.
Rich