[K12OSN] Getting MPlayer installed

[Calvin Dodge]

On 9/8/06, jconlon1 at elp.rr.com <jconlon1 at elp.rr.com> wrote:
> Okay. That made the player work but I am getting the following error
> message:
>
> error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.
>
> How do I cure this?

Run xvinfo.  If it spits out useful information, then your video card
supports xv.

If so, then try "mplayer -vo xv FILENAME".

If not, then try some other video out device, like "x11", "xover", or "sdl".

Calvin