[Mplayer-advusers] Can't frontend mplayer?

[Felix Buenemann]

On Monday, 3. December 2001 20:14, you wrote:
> 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?
>
try system mplayer < /dev/zero
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Best Regards,
	Atmos
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