[HLUG] MPlayer problem...

[Julian Robbins]

Emon wrote:

>Hi all
>
>I just joined the group.
>I am a newbie running Slackware10.2.
>Recently I installed the pkg "Mplayer-1.0pre7" but when I try to
>play a video from my HDD It gives me the following error
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>Fatal error!
>Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.
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Hi. Welcome to our LUG !

As far as I remember, with mplayer you can select different types of 
system with the video and audio outputs. For example you can specify 
ALSA, OSS, ARTs, etc with the sound and usually X11, Xv and others for 
the video. For some reason the -vo is not set to the correct display for 
you, ie with Slackware. Try doing

man mplayer, and see what it says aboiut the different options available 
for -vo.

On another matter, (and not trying to start a flame war ;-) ), why 
choose Slackware if you a linux beginner ? Although its well regarded it 
is probably one of the harder ones to start with.

Ubuntu and Suse are good choices, but all versions of Linux are good.

Julian

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>but "gxine" can play the video.
>
>mp3s are not giving me any trouble though, they run fine on both
>of them.
>
>So... can anyone please tell me what is it that I am doing
>wrong.
>
>Thanks
>Emon
>
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