Re: An Mplayer question
Ooops! I forgot to mention which GUI I'm using. ---> KDE
On Monday, 07 April 2008 11:01 am, Kelly Clowers wrote:
> On 4/7/08, Walt L. Williams <waltwilliams@intergate.com> wrote:
> > Greetings all
> >
> > I used Mplayer on the SuSE(10) system I used to use
> > to play mpg and avi movies. On my former system I merely
> > had to do the install it and it was ready to use. Mplayer
> > on Debian (etch) seems to be broken. What must I do
> > to get Mplayer working on Debian? It gives me to
> > following error:
> >
> > Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device
> >
> > Any suggestions on how to correct this?
>
> If you run mplayer from the command line, it will give you more
> information about what it is doing. Look for the line about which
> VO method it is trying to use. It will look something like this:
> VO: [xv] 320x240 => 320x240 Planar YV12
>
> (the bit in [] being the important part)
>
> Also check to see if there are any other errors.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Kelly Clowers
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Best Regards
Walt L. Williams
http://www.intergate.com/~waltwilliams/
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