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? Thanks! -- Steven Adeff 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 Simple UNIX power ... Sorry if I missunderstand your problem ... - Gabor