fc-5 video playback software

[Robin Laing]

On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 19:10 -0600, Peter Horst wrote:
> 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.
> 

I would look at "man mplayer" and do some playing.

Set your graphics choices in ~.mplayer/config so you don't have to type
them in.