fc-5 video playback software

[Peter Horst]

On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 01:13 -0600, Peter Horst wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 21:14 -0900, gary wrote:
> > > 
> >  1. With mplayer - it appears you need to get into Mplayer> Preferences>
> > Video and setup driver (maybe X11 xv?) vo=video output. Make sure you
> > have the necessary codecs. Also =Mplayer> prefences> misc  - indentify
> > your dvd or cdplayer with /dev/xxx
> > 
> > 2. I did not have a dependency issue when I installed vlc using the
> > livna and fedora extras repos.
> 
> Thanks. The strange this is that in Mplayer/Preferences/Video, all of
> the potential video drivers are greyed out (xmga, xv, etc.).  So this I
> totally do not understand. :-)

For the record, mplayer works when I feed the launcher the name of a
video driver, as 'gmplayer -vo xv', but not otherwise. And the
"Configure driver" button in Preferences is still greyed out. Some
things were just not meant to be understood by me.