In certain setups it is desirable to set environmental variables for the mplayer process, especially the DISPLAY variable. I also ran into an issue where trying to read a property always failed because mplayer had outputted a debug string to stdout, which was read instead of the actual property.
In certain setups it is desirable to set environmental variables for the mplayer process, especially the DISPLAY variable. I also ran into an issue where trying to read a property always failed because mplayer had outputted a debug string to stdout, which was read instead of the actual property.