[MPlayer-users] started from cron, mplayer doesn't work

[Paul TT]

On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 00:27:05 +0100
Paul TT <paultt at hackerjournal.it> wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 20:53:51 +0100
> Lars Mausehund <lars.mausehund at senckenberg.de> wrote:
> 
> > hello,
> > 
> > starting an .mpg-file from the command line, everything works fine.
> > now I want to start a playlist of 3 mpg's every hour as a cron task, but 
> > all I get is a error message in the users mail:
> > 
> > vo: couldn't open the X11 display ()!
> > ..> 
> 
> you should set the DISPLAY variable according to which xserver send mplayer output, for instance "export DISPLAY=:0.0" o "DISPLAY=:0.0 mplayer etc... etc..."
> > 
> 
look also at '-display' option of mplayer