On 05/25/2015 10:25 PM, g wrote: >> For me, running it from a script like above, then * and / do not >> >work, but invoking mplayer on one file at a time it works. > . > try this command line to run script in backgrounder; > script-name& <enter> ...in which case mplayer will have no controlling tty, and keyboard controls will have no effect. How will that help?