Mplayer Frustrations

[Brian Gaynor]

On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 20:16 -0400, C.Beamer wrote:

> I am tearing my hair out by the roots and would prefer not to become
> bald!  I've installed Mplayer via yum.  I removed it and installed via
> source tarball.  I removed the files from the tarball installation and
> installed again vi yum.  It doesn't matter which way I do it, I have
> the same result.  Mplayer works, it produces sound, but I get no
> video, either with mplayer by itself or from within Firefox where I've
> installed the mplayerplug-in.  And yes, I've installed the fonts and
> the codecs.
> 
> I honestly don't know what the big deal is.  I had mplayer working
> just fine under FC3.  I love Fedora, but with all the quirks that I've
> struggled through with FC4, I almost wish I had never upgraded.

I had to go to the video tab under settings and change the video driver
to xv to get it to work.

-- 
Brian Gaynor
www.pmccorp.com
FC4/Linux on DELL Inspiron 5160 3.0Ghz 
canis 17:27:34 up 3:34, 1 user, 
load average: 1.38, 0.64, 0.36