vext01/hgd — Issue #140: Mplayer fails to play when daemonised on linux
Author: egelmex
Created: 2011-12-12 14:00:13+00:00
State: open

Mplayer blocks presumibly waiting for X. if you add -vo null to the mplayer invocation then it works fine.
May be linux/ubuntu specific.

need to make mplayer configurable, this would be usefull anyway for people with multiple sound cards etc.