I can't tell who wrote what in this email, the quoting appears to be messed up... Anyway, ... 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