MPlayer Error

[Richard E Miles]

On Sat, 02 Apr 2005 10:33:34 +0100
Andy Green <andy at warmcat.com> wrote:

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> Mark Sargent wrote:
> | Hi All,
> |
> | I'm getting the below error with all video file formats on FC3 with
> | Mplayer. Anyone know what it is..? Cheers.
> |
> | Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.
> 
> Try running (from the commandline or Open With...)
> 
> mplayer -vo xv blah.avi
> 
> and see if that helps.  If it does, create ~/.mplayer/config and stick
> this in it
> 
> vo=xv
> 
> - -Andy

Or put vo=X11 in ~/.mplayer/config. That's what I use.

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Richard E Miles
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