you probably need to tll it the display as it won't be running in an xterm On Sun, 07 Sep 2003 18:46:23+0100 antonovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > ps. It might just be that I am not specifying a "job" properly. How > > do I do that? I have just been typing what I would type in for a > > command line instruction eg. mplayer /mnt/Movies/TheMatrix.avi, but > > this doesn't work. What am i doing wrong??? > > things seem to work a bit better (=work) when I use a file and when I > don't do something that uses the display (halt, mencoder) > man seems to suggest that it might be necessary to specify a display > adapter (?) but doesnt' mention how. > Still not entirely sure I'm not missing the point a bit. Would it help > if I specified the adapter at the command? ie. mplayer -vo x11 > /mnt/Movies/TheMatrix.avi (or whatever the actual command is...) > cheers > anton > >
