[MPlayer-users] Problem playing windows codec

[Joonas Koivunen]

On Monday 31 March 2003 21:59, Craig Black wrote:
it doesn't "choke".. the problem is between the chair and the keyboard.
check man $SHELL or something, most likely man bash..
from these lines:
> > [1] 3366
> > [2] 3367
> > [2]+  Done                    site=rushlimb
> > craig:~# Using GNU internationalization
you should've guessed that you fuxxxxored up the commandline. bash or your 
$SHELL sees this:
> > craig:~# mplayer 
http://stream.rushlimbaugh.com/cgi-bin/members.cgi?stream=live&site=rushlim 
b&type=windows_live
as:
mplayer http://stream.rushlimbaugh.com/cgi-bin/members.cgi?stream=live &
site=rushlimb &
type=windows_live

and that & means to start as a background process, so three processes are 
started.