[SOLVED] how to run mplayer in background with command line ?

safari8 · 05-05-2011, 08:03 PM

sometimes i just want to stay in console and not start kde. But i do not know how to play music backgroundly. Could anybody help ?Thank you

TobiSGD · 05-05-2011, 08:16 PM

Just start the player as would you do normally, but add an ampersand at the end of the command, like this:

Code:

mplayer *.ogg &

pwalden · 05-06-2011, 11:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TobiSGD

Just start the player as would you do normally, but add an ampersand at the end of the command, like this:

Code:

mplayer *.ogg &

Actually that will not work as mplayer reads from standard in and writes to standard out and error. When running mplayer in the background as suggested above, you will get a message:

Code:

[1]+  Stopped                 mplayer *.ogg

Which means that mplayer halts until it can get access to the in/out file descriptors. typing fg will restart mplayer, but it will run in the foreground. You can avoid this problem by redirection in/out to null.

Code:

mplayer *.ogg </dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1 &

TobiSGD · 05-06-2011, 03:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pwalden

Actually that will not work as mplayer reads from standard in and writes to standard out and error. When running mplayer in the background as suggested above, you will get a message:

Code:

[1]+  Stopped                 mplayer *.ogg

Which means that mplayer halts until it can get access to the in/out file descriptors. typing fg will restart mplayer, but it will run in the foreground. You can avoid this problem by redirection in/out to null.

Code:

mplayer *.ogg </dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1 &

Thanks for the correction, I just assumed that you can send mplayer to background like you do with most other commandline programs. Good to know that doesn't work, and also how the command should look like.

safari8 · 05-07-2011, 05:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TobiSGD

Just start the player as would you do normally, but add an ampersand at the end of the command, like this:

Code:

mplayer *.ogg &

thank you,it really helps.it works with amp

safari8 · 05-07-2011, 05:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pwalden

Actually that will not work as mplayer reads from standard in and writes to standard out and error. When running mplayer in the background as suggested above, you will get a message:

Code:

[1]+  Stopped                 mplayer *.ogg

Which means that mplayer halts until it can get access to the in/out file descriptors. typing fg will restart mplayer, but it will run in the foreground. You can avoid this problem by redirection in/out to null.

Code:

mplayer *.ogg </dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1 &

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