[MPlayer-users] Wierd Behavior : multiple /dev/tty

[Francis Lessard]

Hi !

I am building a looping video server on Ubuntu 7.04 server using the provided 
apt mplayer package (since it is at 1.0rc1) My project has to ;

- output fullscreen TV out (overscan did not work yet)
- fully controllable remotely by ssh
- fully automated, being able to play for weeks in row.

I use "screen" as root to start mplayer with this exact command

mplayer -vo fbdev -double -vf 
crop=640:480:40:0 -playlist /mymedia/mylist -loop 0

This project is working almost perfectly for hours (10+) then the sound goes 
out ! mplayer complains about too many open files. Using lsof, i found out 
that mplayer creates a new line like below, each times a video plays. After 
many loops, i belive the system is getting saturated by those : 

mplayer   4816   root   40w      CHR        5,0                4915 /dev/tty
mplayer   4816   root   41w      CHR        5,0                4915 /dev/tty
mplayer   4816   root   42w      CHR        5,0                4915 /dev/tty
mplayer   4816   root   43w      CHR        5,0                4915 /dev/tty
mplayer   4816   root   44w      CHR        5,0                4915 /dev/tty

Is there any way to fix this behavior ? I have tried to run mplayer out of 
screen, still the same error. 

Any advice ? 

Thanks 

Francis