Need help running mplayer in the background

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From	General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com>
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Subject	Need help running mplayer in the background
Date	18 May 2011 03:01:28 GMT
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I can't run mplayer in the background. This command works fine if I execute it without the redirect
but it gets suspended if I do a >& log &. My real goal is to run it as a cron job, but it's getting 
killed when cron executes it which I assume is the same problem as that I'm seeing when I put it in
the background. What am I missing?

mplayer -dumpstream http://2783.live.streamtheworld.com:443/WLSAM_SC -ac mp3lacm -dumpfile /home/foobar/s_drive/mp3/stream/bob_${DAY}.mp3 >& log &

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Need help running mplayer in the background General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-18 03:01 +0000
  Re: Need help running mplayer in the background Kevin Snodgrass <kdsnodgrass@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-18 03:14 +0000
    Re: Need help running mplayer in the background Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2011-05-18 03:41 +0000
      Re: Need help running mplayer in the background General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-18 13:39 +0000
        Re: Need help running mplayer in the background General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-18 16:24 +0000
          Re: Need help running mplayer in the background Bill Marcum <bill@lat.localnet> - 2011-05-19 10:05 -0400
            Re: Need help running mplayer in the background General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-19 17:41 +0000
              Re: Need help running mplayer in the background Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2011-05-20 03:43 +0000
        Re: Need help running mplayer in the background Huibert Bol <huibert.bol@quicknet.nl> - 2011-05-18 18:49 +0200
          Re: Need help running mplayer in the background General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-18 18:15 +0000
    Re: Need help running mplayer in the background Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2011-05-18 05:56 +0000
    Re: Need help running mplayer in the background Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> - 2011-05-19 22:54 +0100
  Re: Need help running mplayer in the background Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> - 2011-05-19 23:11 +0100
    Re: Need help running mplayer in the background General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-20 01:44 +0000
      Re: Need help running mplayer in the background Aragorn <aragorn@chatfactory.invalid> - 2011-05-20 07:30 +0200
        Re: Need help running mplayer in the background General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-20 11:46 +0000
      Re: Need help running mplayer in the background Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> - 2011-05-20 09:19 +0100
        Re: Need help running mplayer in the background General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-20 11:56 +0000
          Re: Need help running mplayer in the background Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> - 2011-05-20 15:36 +0100
            Re: Need help running mplayer in the background General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-20 18:28 +0000
        Re: Need help running mplayer in the background General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-20 12:09 +0000

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