[mythtv-users] Problems with custom menus and Internet radio

[Josh]

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Brad DerManouelian <myth at dermanouelian.com>
wrote:

> On Apr 9, 2008, at 11:13 AM, Joacim J wrote:
>
> > No ideas?
>
> I don't know why it doesn't work, but as a workaround you could exec
> playradio.sh and then have playradio.sh a shell script to launch
> mplayer to see if that works better for you.
>
> -Brad
>
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Brad is correct. It's not a good idea to fire off something like mplayer
from a EXEC as you have no further control of the process (even if it
doesn't crash myth in the process).

Josh
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