[MPlayer-users] Starting Mplayer when X is started.

[Øyvind Stegard]

Joseph Wright wrote:

>[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>I am trying to launch mplayer through my .xinitric file so it will start
>playing when X is launched.  I can invoke mplayer manually and
>everything works great but if I try to have .xinitric launch it I
>receive the message,
>
>"MPlayer interrupted by signal 1 in module: unknown"
>- Mplayer crashed. This shouldn't happed, It can be a bug in th
>emplayer code_or_ in your drivers _or_ in your gcc version.
>
>I am not sure if this is mplayer or not. (probably not)
>
>I am launching mplayer with -vo x11
>
>I am running FreeBSD 4.6.2 with a NVIDIA MX 420 and the nvidia
>drivers.
>XFree Version is 4.2.0
>
>thanks
>
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Do you have a window manager running when trying to start mplayer 
?(Since the wm is usually loaded last in the .xinitrc file) Don't know 
if it matters, though, but who knows.