[MPlayer-users] mplayer as a background process

[Corey Hickey]

|TEcHNO| wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Try:
> $mplayer bar.avi &> /dev/null </dev/null &
> if I'm right it shoudl work.

Yes. The reason is that mplayer reads stdin for keyboard commands, but
can't do so when backgrounded. The </dev/null makes this possible. If
you want to see mplayer's output, leave off the &>/dev/null.

-Corey