[MPlayer-users] Why mplayer can't run in background ?

[Gábor Lénárt]

On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 06:44:53PM -0300, Dinko Yaksic wrote:
> 	And it worked perfectly generating the 70 PNGs I need to analyze. But
> shortly I tried:
> 
> $ mplayer -vo png -nosound -quiet /tmp/CC-CS.MPG &
> ... movie stats...
> [1]+  Stopped                 mplayer -vo png -quiet CC-CS.MPG
> 
> 
> 	Surprise! it asks for an input from stdin after displaying the stats of
> that movie. Neither kill -SIGCONT works...

mplayer -someoptions </dev/null &

UNIX rulez.

- Gabor