On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Mark
<mamarcac@gmail.com> wrote:
Has anyone else experienced mplayer generating Fatal Error "Error
opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device" after adding debian-multimedia.org to sources.list and performing the subsequent Smart Upgrades? I'm trying to figure out if that's the cause; since other machines I have without debian-multimedia.org in the sources.list tab play the same .mov files fine I'm suspecting this. I've tried various tweaks I found on-line to the /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf file for the vo section but nothing worked. I'll be re-doing the installation for a friend and wanted to avoid breaking mplayer if possible.
I have confirmed one of the Smart Upgrades contained in debian-multimedia on Lenny does in fact cause this Fatal Error. I reinstalled Lenny on the same machine tonight, without adding debian-multimedia to /etc/apt/sources.list, and mplayer plays the .mov files just fine.