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I use this

type mplayer
mplayer is aliased to `mplayer -fs -noconsolecontrols -loop 0'

to play files. I would like to mute the stdout stuff so I could keep bash to do other things by running mplayer with &.
This worked with GNOME 2 but since I updated to sid something went wrong.

MPlayer svn r34540 (Debian), built with gcc-4.6 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team

Another thing:

When replaying after full cycle (the loop flag above) the window with the media that looped gets on top of everything else.

Like, if I watch a Survivor episode with no sound, and then play music videos in the background (that is, two mplayer processes), the music video gets focus at each new iteration.

Is there a way to turn this off but still keep the looping on?

Oliver Salzburg
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  1. To silence the output you could use shell IO redirection, either of:

    mplayer -noconsolecontrols <options> 2>&- 1>/dev/null &
mplayer -slave <options> 2>&- 1>/dev/null &

  2. The -fixed-vo option should make mplayer reuse the same window thus fixing the focus grabbing.

This is based on the man page included with:

MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.3.2-DFSG-free (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team

Yes, that is Debian lenny's mplayer.

Dan D.
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  • This disabled the audio, that wasn't my intention but to not have the stdout debug stuff so I could run mplayer from bash with & and then do other things in the terminal window. 2. -fixed-vo did work, thanks
    • – Emanuel Berg Apr 28 '12 at 12:52
  • Ah, I've updated the answer with a solution that works and that I've tested for 1 – Dan D. Apr 28 '12 at 18:07
  • Right, I had forgotten about that solution. Cool 2>1 :) Alright, problem solved. – Emanuel Berg Apr 28 '12 at 20:59
  • Actually, the 2>1 doesn't seem to work. It thinks it is a file name so a file named 1 is created. Of course, 2> /dev/null will do it. – Emanuel Berg Apr 29 '12 at 00:49
  • I was mistaken in the syntax for IO redirection (ref) but that has been corrected. And I found after testing that if I didn't add the -slave option, mplayer wouldn't play when backgrounded. – Dan D. Apr 29 '12 at 01:18
  • Yeah? It works for me, maybe because of -noconsolecontrols? – Emanuel Berg Apr 29 '12 at 01:21
  • Yup, that option works too. – Dan D. Apr 29 '12 at 01:26