[Mplayer-advusers] Can't frontend mplayer?

[Lewin A.R.W. Edwards]

Further update to this:

>I'm developing a multimedia frontend program, and I wanted to be able to 
>let the user use mplayer (if installed) as one of the backends. However I 
>can't seem to build a commandline and call mplayer from within my own 
>program! For example,

If I run mplayer by using "system xterm -e /usr/local/bin/mplayer 
fred.mpg", it works. Why does it work when run from xterm, but not when run 
directly within X?